https://community.intel.com/t5/Embedded-Intel-Core-Processors/Is-multi-core-a-given/m-p/228116#M1674 <P></P><P>This blog was written by Stefanus Du Toit at RapidMind. He writes about the difference between SMP and multi-core. He concludes that multi-core is not a choice, but a given. Is he right? What do you think?</P><P></P><P>"That brings me to the fundamentally important difference between SMP and multi-core. <B>SMP is a choice</B>, that some applications chose to (and still choose to!) take advantage of. <B>Multi-core is a given</B>, that <I>all</I> applications must react to in order to continue to scale up performance."</P><P></P><P></P><P>Read his blog: <A href="http://blogs.rapidmind.com/2008/04/17/the-difference-between-multi-core-and-multi-processing/">http://blogs.rapidmind.com/2008/04/17/the-difference-between-multi-core-and-multi-processing/</A></P><P></P><P></P><P>His bio: Stefanus DuToit is a co-founder and chief architect at RapidMind. He has led the development and</P><P>evolution of the RapidMind platform since 2003. Stefanus has extensive</P><P>experience in the areas of graphics, GPGPU, systems programming, and</P><P>compilers. Stefanus holds a Bachelors of Mathematics degree in Computer</P><P>Science. </P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P> </P><P></P><P></P> Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:57:57 GMT DSeif 2008-10-13T21:57:57Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Embedded-Intel-Core-Processors/Is-multi-core-a-given/m-p/228116#M1674 <P></P><P>This blog was written by Stefanus Du Toit at RapidMind. He writes about the difference between SMP and multi-core. He concludes that multi-core is not a choice, but a given. Is he right? What do you think?</P><P></P><P>"That brings me to the fundamentally important difference between SMP and multi-core. <B>SMP is a choice</B>, that some applications chose to (and still choose to!) take advantage of. <B>Multi-core is a given</B>, that <I>all</I> applications must react to in order to continue to scale up performance."</P><P></P><P></P><P>Read his blog: <A href="http://blogs.rapidmind.com/2008/04/17/the-difference-between-multi-core-and-multi-processing/">http://blogs.rapidmind.com/2008/04/17/the-difference-between-multi-core-and-multi-processing/</A></P><P></P><P></P><P>His bio: Stefanus DuToit is a co-founder and chief architect at RapidMind. He has led the development and</P><P>evolution of the RapidMind platform since 2003. Stefanus has extensive</P><P>experience in the areas of graphics, GPGPU, systems programming, and</P><P>compilers. Stefanus holds a Bachelors of Mathematics degree in Computer</P><P>Science. </P><P></P><P></P><P></P><P> </P><P></P><P></P> Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:57:57 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Embedded-Intel-Core-Processors/Is-multi-core-a-given/m-p/228116#M1674 DSeif 2008-10-13T21:57:57Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Embedded-Intel-Core-Processors/Is-multi-core-a-given/m-p/228117#M1675 <P></P><P>He is absolutely right. Multicore is the most efficient way to scale performance above 1-2GHz once all the usual architectural techniques have been implemented (pipelining, caching, multi-threading etc.), so this is a given if software is to scale with performance. In fact software really need to be written for multicore to benefit from hardware multi-threading as well.</P> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:22:56 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Embedded-Intel-Core-Processors/Is-multi-core-a-given/m-p/228117#M1675 SStan3 2008-10-23T19:22:56Z