yah an 8 core CPU… That would be great to have inside a server. I am saving up for a new server right now. I would love to have a nice fast server unlike the one I have now. This article talks about how faster chips are leaving programmers in their dust because of the non-existent standards of CPUs’.

Developers: Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 17, @12:42PM
from the or-maybe-they’ve-already-wrapped-around-to-zero dept.

mlimber writes “The New York Times is running a story about multicore computing and the efforts of Microsoft et al. to try to switch to the new paradigm: “The challenges [of parallel programming] have not dented the enthusiasm for the potential of the new parallel chips at Microsoft, where executives are betting that the arrival of manycore chips — processors with more than eight cores, possible as soon as 2010 — will transform the world of personal computing…. Engineers and computer scientists acknowledge that despite advances in recent decades, the computer industry is still lagging in its ability to write parallel programs.” It mirrors what C++ guru and now Microsoft architect Herb Sutter has been saying in articles such as his “The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software.” Sutter is part of the C++ standards committee that is working hard to make multithreading standard in C++.”