So Your Processor has Multiple Cores -- Now What? · Jan 10, 07:39 PM
It is nearly impossible today buy servers or desktops that do not have processors with multiple cores.
The use of several cores has gone from an important innovation to a universal feature in two years’ time. (Technically, non-x86 processors had multiple cores before this time frame, but the concept was not mainstream until the x86 vendors — Intel and AMD — picked it up.) As a result of this ubiquity, sites that are buying new servers need to begin considering the effect of multiple cores. Read more…
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