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Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 5:57 PM by Malcolm
Parallel processing isn't just for supercomputers or GPUs anymore. Computer makers are throwing multiple cores at everything from servers to your printer. But the focus on horsepower misses a crucial problem associated with adding more processors. To really take advantage of them, you have to rewrite your code.
