T3 announced

By: anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com), September 21, 2010 9:31 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) on 9/21/10 wrote:
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>Max (nousefor@name.com) on 9/21/10 wrote:
>>
>>gone is the 2x per core performance claim. we still will
>>be getting 4 t3-2 boxen here.
>
>Is there any real technical information? I'm not seeing
>Oracle crowing about transactional memory etc, so it looks
>like it's very similar to T2 with double the cores (now
>16 cores per chip).
>
>Linus

I'm quite sure that most major CPU companies looked fairly seriously at transactional memory starting from a few years back.

They're looking for some holy grail of TLP, but I'd guess TMEM is very difficult to implement without *serious* restrictions, and anyway a more fundamental problem for software is probably simply the work partitioning and data sharing model which can't be magic'ed away.
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