Great article discussing the collision of Intel and ARM worlds:
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Starting a new instance of firefox
firefox -no-remote -P profile2 &
But before we need to create the profile2 profile:
firefox -ProfileManager
(execute with all firefox windows closed)
Intel, 1000 cores, embedded and parallel computing
I got these news from slashdot today, and found it interesting to copy&paste (with given credits):
angry tapir writes "An experimental Intel chip shows the feasibility of building processors with 1,000 cores, an Intel researcher has asserted. The architecture for the Intel 48-core Single Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) processor is "arbitrarily scalable," according to Timothy Mattson "This is an architecture that could, in principle, scale to 1,000 cores," he said. "I can just keep adding, adding, adding cores.""
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/368762/intel_1_000-core_processor_possible/
and
future.nerd writes "The companies like Intel and AMD have dominated the microprocessor market since the evolution of computer but these companies have not come up with a solution to their heating problem. It is likely that these companies will face tough competition in near future when companies look to save cost because there are low cost alternatives available from companies that originally provide low cost chips for devices like cell phones and other mobile devices. ARM is one of those companies that provide that kind of processor."
http://codingfuture.com/are-arm-chips-better-than-intel-and-amd/
VGA Output for the BeagleBoard
Basic Games
I hope I find some time to try that on my TK3000//e!
http://www.visualnews.com/2010/11/13/computer-games-you-can-program-yourself/
BeagleBoard: NEON Hello World
How to add 16 8-bit numbers at the same time in Beagle Board (real parallelism)
http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=NEON_HelloWorld#How_to_compile_.3F
The future of parallel computing
Great article – worthy reading if you are interested in embedded & parallel systems.
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-183.html