Improve Performance of Multi-Core Processors

Abstract

Multi-core processors, long used on high-end servers, have now moved into the PC server and desktop system space. The problem is that corporate buyers at small to medium sized companies will expect, when they -buy new hardware, solution that  boost performance abd efficiency immediately.

However, the interaction between application performance and multi-core processors is far more complex, affecting numerous layers of the application and operating systems.

For some business applications, multi-core processors do not boost performance; to the contrary, such processors actually slow down certain classes of applications.

Research centers have become aware of this problem and have examined ways to address it.