new intel

[dino g]

perhaps the general geekdom has already beat this one to death somewhere on reduser, if not...this seems pretty cool for us...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2361144,00.asp

[Bruce Allen]

Benchmarks here:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3763&p=1
and here:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2361083,00.asp
and here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-980x-gulftown,2573.html

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Elsie N]

Yeah, but that many cores definitely needs apps that have been tested using this:
http://petravm.com (http://www.ece.cmu.edu/CALCM/asplos10/doku.php)

edit: for some reason the link takes you to something other than the Petra home page. maybe just type it into a search engine. I've been to the home page and it looks nothing like the link above sends you to. But basically, it is a startup company that has developed a software solution that helps stop apps from crashing by assigning steps to specific spots on specific processors of a multi-processor machine that keeps the computer from placing that information on various cores at various times. This explains why an app can work fine for a hundred times and then crash when information is loaded out of sync on the 101st time.