Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:02:42 01/29/05
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On January 29, 2005 at 14:03:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On January 29, 2005 at 11:35:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 29, 2005 at 08:20:07, Jason Kent wrote: >> >>>It looks like by the third quarter of this year, both intel and amd will be >>>selling dual cores. Are they basically handled as two processors under task >>>manager, and software? I'm guessing this is going mean that to get the most out >>>of your cpu, you will have to buy all the Deep versions. Maybe that is why SMK >>>decided to seperate the programs? >>> >>>Jason >> >>Dual cores will be two cpus with shared cache. This means your old dual-cpu MB >>will have four real processors, or your old quad-cpu MB will now have 8 cpus. > >Actually each cpu will have for each core its own L2 cache. So at a single dual >core cpu you will have 2 L2 caches. One for each core. > >That's both the case for intel and for AMD. > >Vincent Yep. Each pair of cores will have a shared local memory. Was thinking of this new NUMA issue when I wrote that. I'll be able to post some performance numbers before too long, but I can't at present...
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