Waking Up Multi-Core Processors [GENERAL CERTIFICATION NEWS]
By Dan Woods
"Why Apps Can't Run Faster" explained that just putting more and more cores in chips doesn't increase the processing speed of applications. This is because applications aren't typically designed to take advantage of more than eight cores.
To be able to make the most of a multi-core processor, you can run lots of applications on one computer with lots of multi-core processors. Then the operating system balances the workload across all of the cores. But this is much less efficient than running applications that are multi-threaded that balance the work across cores inside the application. This is the art of parallel programming.
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