[geeks] UltraSparc IV dual core?

[Chris Byrne]

Should be interesting. 

I wonder how these dual cores look to older os's that don't know about
them vs newer ones. 

Can/are the newer OS's be programmed to take advantage of the inherent
design advantges of having the dual core (speed of transport, coherency
etc...), and if there is a significant difference in performance using
existing os's between a conventional SMP implementation and a multicore
implementation.

Chris Byrne

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> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Huhn
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 21:07
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> Subject: [geeks] UltraSparc IV dual core?
> 
> 
> I just read, linked to from sunhelp.org, that the UltraSparc 
> IV will be
> a dual core CPU.  
> 
> Impressions?  Thoughts?
> 
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