Exploding core counts: Heading for the buffers
Ferrari engine meet go-kart
The top minds at IT analyst Gartner have been mulling over the ever-increasing number of cores on modern processors, and have come to a conclusion that many academic experts have already come to – boosting core counts to take advantage of Moore’s Law is gonna run out of gas, and sooner rather than later, because software can’t take advantage of the threads that chip makers can deliver. At least not running the current crop of systems and application software.…
