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Multicore Watershed (hpcwire.com)
4 points by helwr on March 5, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



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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