Full Multi-core Power May Require Windows Rework
How about we just build you a core for every program that you wish to run?

AMD and Intel are quickly ramping up the number of cores inside our consumer level CPUs, but do we have the software chops to handle all that power?
With modern CPUs now having more cores in one chip than some of us have computers in our homes, the question of how to handle all that power is a concern for a certain software kernel architect at working Microsoft.
We now have affordable PCs with up to four cores and some even able to process twice as many threads. "Why should you ever, with all this parallel hardware, ever be waiting for your computer?" posed Dave Probert, a part of the Windows core operating systems division at Microsoft.
The problem, Probert believes, is that software still isn't being written to best take advantage of all the hardware that'd we've been running in our systems for years now.
Although modern operating systems do true multitasking and scale with the addition of more cores, Probert thinks that to take full advantage of the new wonderfully powerful hardware we have, it will require a reworking and rethinking of Windows.
Of course, with the rapidly growing number of cores, especially in light of Intel's experimental 48-core CPU, an alternative method would be to devote at least one discrete core to each application.
"With many-core, CPUs [could] become CPUs again," he said. "If we get enough of them, maybe we can start to hand them out."
In such a case, the OS would no longer resemble the kernel mode of today's systems, but it would be more like a hypervisor, providing a layer between the virtual machine and hardware.
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Microsoft is already working on it, and it's a multikernel OS, basically lots of small kernels that run collaboratively on different hardware nodes (like NUMA nodes) instead of the classical approach of one kernel running on multiple NUMA nodes at once.
Ummm.... because some things CAN'T be done in a parallel way!
Microsoft is already working on it, and it's a multikernel OS, basically lots of small kernels that run collaboratively on different hardware nodes (like NUMA nodes) instead of the classical approach of one kernel running on multiple NUMA nodes at once.
Ummm.... because some things CAN'T be done in a parallel way!
My advice, is misuse the message pump to stabilize your application. Create hidden windows and send windows messages between threads. It isn't pretty, but it always works.
By the way. I understand it's hard for windows system to make better from the improvement of original windows every revolution. Maybe it's more easy to start from sketch to write a new operation system...Maybe call "Doors 10"
Yes, however most of that code(s) will be needed to be re-written from Linux to Windows.
According to top500, pretty much all supercomputers (and the same case in HPC area) use Linux: http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/os
You mean CUDA/Stream? If so, realize that most of the normal x86 ops used by the CPU will not run very well on GPU. What GPUs really rock at is crunching raw numbers.
interesting i wish they succed
Why is it that OS design isn't focusing more so on utilizing GPU parallel processing (as seen w/ NVIDIA's CUDA) since there already are 16-800 cores available w/NVIDIA and ATI's products)?
Because 90% of people who use PC's don't have discreet GPU's in their machines.