I've watched as the application we develop at work has switched from ancient single and dual core Linux boxes to (now) dual-dodeca-core boxes and all sort of "c

I've watched as the application we develop at work has switched from ancient single and dual core Linux boxes to (now) dual-dodeca-core boxes and all sort of "completely impossible" races have surfaced. All progressively more "impossible" as the number of cores and their speed has kept on increasing.