> > In this month's IEEE Spectrum magazine there is an interesting study > on multi core CPUs and 'intensive computing' done at Sandia labs Seems > like with the current data bus architecture, 8 core is the max for > data access intensive applications like data mining. So I am thinking > that if you need to move lots of data for your applications, the CPU > is not the limiter, it is how the system moves data into and out of > the CPU(s) that needs to be considered. will read thanks