FROM
THE EDITOR
This week, Bryon Moyer brings us back a report from the Multicore expo. Multicore and multi-processing in general have been a focus topic for us recently (and will continue to be for a several more weeks). This time, Bryon brings us the latest from a comfy little conference focused just on this topic.
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Multicore Momentum
The Multicore Expo Bulks Up
(Bryon Moyer)
A couple years ago a small ragtag conference took place in Santa Clara just before the relative behemoth Embedded Systems Conference. “Ragtag” might be a bit unfair, but it seemed that way only when compared to the much larger and better-funded conferences; perhaps “scrappy” is a better characterization. This was just a start, the first edition of the Multicore Expo, and at the time, many in multicore seemed to be grasping for relevance. The participants were all sure multicore was guaranteed in the future, but there was no swagger in the strut. Would multicore go mainstream this year? Next year?
The 2008 edition just finished, and one step into the presentation room provided a very different feel. According to organizer Markus Levy, this year’s conference was about double the size of last year’s. And the atmosphere was much more confident; this is the real deal. They had to add chairs to some of the conference rooms to accommodate the number of people in attendance. [more] |
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