MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work
All about Microsoft | at | by Mike
Microsoft officials have been talking up, as of late, the need for some fundamental changes in software design and development to accommodate the shift to many cores on client systems. There are several Microsoft Research projects focusing on various aspects of the many-core challenge. The newest and seemingly most far-reaching of these is MS-ManiC.
"...is focused on designing scalable memory system architectures for future many-core processors. The memory system is not only one of the major performance bottlenecks in chip multiprocessors, but its design can lead to serious energy inefficiency, unpredictability, and security holes..."