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Intel V8 Eight-Core Platform Preview (page 12)Category: CPU [ 05/18/2007 | 06:57 PM ] Other Multi-Threaded Applications
New version of Excel 2007 is a good example of an application dealing with parallel calculations. The test measuring the time its takes the system to calculate an electronic table using Monte-Carlo algorithm for an economy problem is a great proof of that.
Data compression is another type of tasks that benefits greatly from additional computational cores in the system. Although archiving utilities are quite demanding to the memory subsystem performance, eight-core Intel V8 platform with relatively slow FB DDR2-667 SDRAM works much faster than a Core 2 Extreme QX6800 platform with high-performance DDR2 SDRAM. <%BANNER[banner_468x30]%>
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Category NewsCategory: CPU Thursday, July 24, 200811:06 pm Intel Rumoured to Speed Up Nehalem Launch on Desktop. Intel’s Bloomfield Processor to Emerge in September – Rumours Wednesday, July 23, 20083:35 pm AMD to Discuss Rival for Intel Atom Towards Year End. AMD’s Competitor for Intel Atom in the Works, Says Company Monday, July 21, 20088:46 am AMD Initiates Pilot Production of 45nm Chips. AMD to Bring 45nm Products in Early Q4 2008 Thursday, July 17, 20082:36 pm AMD’s Chief Executive Officer Hector Ruiz Steps Down. Dirk Meyer Becomes New Chief Exec of AMD 12:15 pm Intel: Atom Will Not Substitute Celeron Processors. Intel Denies Possibility to Change Celeron for Atom All Latest News <%BANNER[right_130x130_1]%>
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