via HtP - Software model needs overhaul

As the trend toward putting multiple processors on a chip spills into the commercial marketplace, thought leaders say it's time for an even more radical shift, to new software models that reveal, rather than hide, the details of all the hardware resources engineers can now cram into a microprocessor.

Academics rally loudly around this trend, and network processor designers represent a phalanx of revolutionary engineers who have heard the call. But many top commercial microprocessor engineers still resist the painful migration away from today's legacy software aimed at uniprocessor machines.