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Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:32:03 GMT

There are a lot of 2 core support(threads) in lots of apps,but that's it!No more.Only some selected apps have quad support,and those are very little in number

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

wolf2009 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:59:57 GMT

CoolZone:
Multicore programming is very hard,trust me

thats dissapointing to know , guess we wont see multi core applications anytime soon.

Re: Multiprocessing

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:55:36 GMT

it does not really matter if windows supports multi-core,it matters only if the running application supports multi-threading or not.

Re: Multiprocessing

trueg50 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:50:25 GMT

While yes, Windows will use multiple processors very well, the issue is still, multi-processor use in single apps, such as Auto CADD, or games.

Re: Multiprocessing

frg1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:47:25 GMT

dont see why windows wouldnt incorparate that in windows 7

Multiprocessing

AjayD — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:42:33 GMT

I suspect we won't see much support for multi-core processing among simpler applications until they become complex enough to truly benefit from it. The largest advantage will come via improved multi-core task assignment and processing in windows. Even if the application itself isn't designed to take advantage of multiple cores, if you are multitasking, Windows will be better equipped to distribute tasks among the cores for maximum efficiency. Of course this will only apply to future processors that are designed for fully independent core functionality. Hopefully we will see the fruits of this research in Windows 7. It would be best if windows had the capability to automatically apply multiprocessing to all applications rather than requiring the individual applications to be programed as such.

I don't know very much about programming so please feel free to correct or enlighten me if I am wrong.

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:20:52 GMT

It will be always be hard,and with the growth of threads,it gets harder and harder

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

frg1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:52:49 GMT

CoolZone:
Multicore programming is very hard,trust me

i know its hard im just saying make it easier with a new langauge or tools infact it will probably always be hard

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:30:02 GMT

Multicore programming is very hard,trust me

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

frg1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:36:44 GMT

maybe if they had a new proggraming language this would make it easier

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:26:00 GMT

if microsoft will support with its Windows well multicore,you still have to convince all the programmers that make a lot of useful programs that you use day by day to make their apps with multicore support and that is hard,trust me,and no one will do that,at least just for now

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

frg1 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:55:35 GMT

sounds great

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

trueg50 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:55:03 GMT

Yes!

This is excellant news, it means the multi-core beasts Intel is preparing will at the very least have some use in an Operating system, though Microsoft might pass on some of that knowledge to others via custom compilers / tools for developers.

I guess this also means that the tools that Intel created for making multithreaded apps didn't turn out so well.

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:25:06 GMT

and this technology is headed where?Servers or workstations?

Re: Intel & Microsoft Fund Multi-Threading Research

frg1 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:03:21 GMT

sounds intersting