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The Multi-Core Myth

filed in Hardware on Oct.11, 2012

A multi-core CPU is not always a better performer than a single-core CPU. This fact depends upon many different factors, including the task at hand, the architecture of the CPU, etc. The following article provides a good bit of information on the factors surrounding this fact in detail. Check out the excerpt below or check [...]

Tags: architecture, computer, core processors, cpu, de gelas, enterprise-it, HyperThreading, multicore myth, multitasking, myth, performance, review, scheduling, Simultaneous multithreading, SMT, Software, technology, threading

The first digital computer wasn’t the ENIAC

filed in Hardware on Feb.03, 2011

“Who invented the computer? For anyone who has made a pilgrimage to the University of Pennsylvania and seen the shrine to the ENIAC, the answer may seem obvious: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., who led Penn’s engineering team in the 1940s. As it says on the plaque, the giant machine made of 17,468 [...]

Tags: berry, computer, eckert, eniac, jane smiley, mauchly

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