Showing posts with label Core i7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Core i7. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2009

Using VirtualBox 3.0 Virtualization Software to Measure Multicore Scalability

Posted on http://www.ddj.com/go-parallelThe new Sun's VirtualBox virtualization software release offers very interesting features to allow developers to measure multicore scalability. As these new features were not available in previous versions, it is very important to consider them when evaluating a virtualization solution in order to test parallel performance in different operating systems and hardware environments.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Intel's Hyper-Threading Strikes Back

Posted on www.ddj.com/go-parallel
Intel's Hyper-Threading technology was introduced with the 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor. A few years later, the new Intel Core i7 processors offer Hyper-Threading again.