Stanford talk
Pat Gelsinger discusses motivations that drove the development of the Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture, some of its most important features and the challenges that face microprocessor designers in the future.
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rchrd@Sun
If you can’t get your code over 90% parallelized, then you’d better pay attention to the part that is running in only one processor, and make sure that (serial) part is optimized. Because it will dominate performance.

The Multicore Computer Forum Series “ explor[es] the benefits and challenges of Multicore computing.”

High Performance Throughput Computing, Dr. Marc Tremblay, Sun Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Architect, Sun’s Scalable Systems Group
Software and the Concurrency Revolution, Herb Sutter, Microsoft
Architecture Support for Parallel Programming, Dr. Kunle Olukotun, Associate Professor, Stanford University

Sun Dialogue Programs
(Q): If you have to pick top 10 things that you must monitor on any server to look for performance and/or scalability issues…what would they be?
Richard McDougall (A): Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

CPU: Check idle time and run queue length.
If there’s a CPU bottleneck, check if it’s an [...]