In Processor Architecture: Part I I left off with a discussion of threads and threading. For this post, I will be dealing with SMP and multi-core technologies. SMP – Symmetric Multiprocessing. Basically put, multiple CPU’s on one motherboard that share the workload. Multi-core – More than one CPU residing in a single CPU footprint. SMP, [...]
Last week I wrote a guest post for Ilker of The ThinkingBlog. The subject was ubiquitous computing. The videos below begin to supply a real world example of what I was talking about in the guest post. I nearly started drooling when I saw the technology a few months ago. As you watch, think of [...]
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While I’m putting the finishing touches on my next post (Part 2 of Processor Architecture) check out the “Ask Me” section of the site. Just click on the tab at the top of the page entitled “Ask Me” and leave me a question. You can ask just about anything. Come on…you know you want to [...]
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This is Part 1 of a 2-3 part series. A friend recently asked me, “Can you build me a super-computer with tons of processors to handle my architecture software?” after I informed him that my new CPU was dual-core. I tried my best to explain to how multiple processor systems actually worked and that it [...]
Addendum: I actually wrote two posts today. The other was a guest post for Ilker of The Thinking Blog who is very busy at the moment with exams. Check it out here. (very interesting stuff if I do say so myself.) How many of you played the game “Mouse Trap” as kids? The object of [...]
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