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June 4, 2008
Gates Gets Concurrent
From Bill Gates' Microsoft Tech-Ed 2008 keynote speech yesterday in Orlando, Fla. (his last as full-time chairman of Microsoft):"Looming after that, though, is an even more interesting challenge, which is the clock speed will not increase at the same rate it has over the last 30 years. It will largely stay the same, and the additional performance will come from having multiple execution units. And so the need to take programs and break them down into parallel execution units now becomes absolutely necessary to get the benefit of the exponential increase in transistors. We have an incredible amount of work at Microsoft to make the runtimes higher level, and to make it easy to take your code and write it in this parallel fashion. There will be a lot of discussion about this so-called 'multi-core' revolution in how we make sure we're all doing the best to take advantage of that."
Posted by Alexandra Weber Morales on June 4, 2008 1:32 PM
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