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Are those software packages written to take advantage of that many cores? Since they all date back 10 years or more, I would guess not.
by ams6110 9y ago
Are those software packages written to take advantage of that many cores? Since they all date back 10 years or more, I would guess not.
- gumby 9y agoAnd you would guess wrong. LINPACK is a lot older than 10years too :-)...more like 35
- ams6110 9y agoSure but LINPACK has always been for scientific and supercomputing applications. Photoshop is a prosumer PC software application.
- acdha 9y agoPhotoshop is heavily used by pros (i.e. people for whom time = money) and in scientific or medical imaging. It’s had SMP for a long time (I thought going back to the 90s) and has often been one of the first mainstream adopters of new things like SIMD because it’s a measurable boost for many operations.
- wmf 9y agoOften "old" software like Linpack will be rewritten under the same name. Presumably Intel's implementation is tuned for their latest processors.
- dboreham 9y ago10 years ago was 2008 : pretty much every machine had multiple cores then, except perhaps low end laptops. 20 years ago in 1998 SMP (before we decided the word "core" sounded nice) was quite common, certainly in machines used by developers and graphics designers. 30 years ago in 1988 SMP in microcomputers was uncommon, but it was very common in minicomputers and mainframes. Whether software has been written for SMP scaling is quite another thing. Plenty of software written today isn't.