Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip (BBC)

Posted Dec 6, 2009 0:46 UTC (Sun) by jeff_marshall (subscriber, #49255)
In reply to: Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip (BBC) by dcoutts
Parent article: Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip (BBC)

C doesn't admit the existence of threads (or processes, for that matter), so
I would contend that the memory model,or rather lack thereof, for
multiprocessing in c is not broken by this approach.

As a practical matter, it's trivial to implement message passing between
processes where cache coherency is not provided by the underlying hardware
given the ability to manually invalidate the cache.