The Manycore Shift
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This white paper discusses the "manycore shift," in which the computational power of manycore processors, new programming models and platforms, and advanced research in usability promise to change the way people interact with computers.
The paper begins with a definition of terms: a multi-core chip refers to eight or less homogeneous cores in one microprocessor package, whereas a manycore chip has more than eight possibly heterogeneous cores in one microprocessor package. In a manycore system, all cores share the resources and services provided by the operating system, including memory and disk access.
The paper goes on to examine the background and the potential future of manycore systems. Get an in-depth look at the Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative, which encompasses the vision, strategy, and innovative developments to support parallel computing and to harness the compute power of manycore architecture. Learn how the Parallel Computing Initiative supports a vision of common productivity and development tools between manycore systems and high-performance computing (HPC) systems to further scale the utility of HPC.
