This wasn't a great article, but the topic fascinates me. I'm surprised the shift from faster-clocks to multi-core went so smoothly. No one seems to really mi

This wasn't a great article, but the topic fascinates me. I'm surprised the shift from faster-clocks to multi-core went so smoothly. No one seems to really mind. I really like my quad core, 4 processors is a lot nicer than one. But I wonder about hundreds or thousands of cores, if we'll see that and if people will start to worry that single threaded software uses ever smaller amounts of their shiny new hardware. Will there every be some magic layer that can run single threaded software on many cores? I wrote about the end of faster clocks and start of multi-core recently: http://www.kmeme.com/2010/09/clock-speed-wall.html http://www.kmeme.com/2010/09/clock-speed-wall.html