Free and open source software key for multicore hardware

Press Release,

New Zealand, February 3, 2014.

Free and open source software key to taking advantage of multicore hardware

Free and open source software will almost undoubtedly be the way to manage hugely powerful multicore computers says Nicolas Erdody.

The organiser of Multicore World 2014 Conference at Aucklands AUT on 25 and 26 February, says computer engineers are beginning to get to grips with writing programs to effectively handle many cores on one chip (multicore), which dramatically increases computing processing power.

But theres many different approaches to how to provide these instructions, and weve assembled a world-class range of speakers to outline these software advances, which so far havent matched the massive hardware increases by computer-chip manufacturers, says Erdody.

For IT managers, CTOs & CIOs, computer engineers and developers and anyone with even a hint of interest in where computing is heading, this conference will be invaluable.

Among the speakers is Associate Professor Manuel Chakravarty of the University of New South Wales who will illustrate how the Accelerate open source framework delivers a competitive multicore performance with a fraction of the effort of alternatives.

The Lead Data Technologist at Germanys codecentric AG, Pavlo Baron, will explain why their approach is to use Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as a way to deal with multiple millions of events per second in a multicore environment.

New Zealands Catalyst IT, who are also one of the conferences sponsors, will have its Cloud Engineer Ricardo Rocha describe some of the significant shifts that have occurred in data storage systems, where new interfaces aim to relax, and speed up, some of the traditional access protocols.

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