How are you taking advantage of Multicore?

Question

As someone in the world of HPC who came from the world of enterprise web development, I\'m always curious to see how developers back in the \"real world\" are taking advanta

Answer 1

You say "For web applications it's very, very easy: ignore it. Unless you've got some code that really begs to be done in parallel you can simply write old-style single-threaded code and be happy."

I am working with Web applications and I do need to take full advantage of parallelism. I understand your point. However, we must prepare for the multicore revolution. Ignoring it is the same than ignoring the GUI revolution in the 90's.

We are not still developing for DOS? We must tackle multicore or we'll be dead in many years.