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Multicore Watershed
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hpcwire.com
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4 points
by
helwr
on March 5, 2010
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wendroid
on March 5, 2010
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My 1999 book on parallel architectures concluded 4 CPUs is the cut-off for diminishing return speedup on general purpose code.
The market has maybe shifted to virtualisation, not anticipated, where the workload is different.
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The market has maybe shifted to virtualisation, not anticipated, where the workload is different.