More iMac Benchmarks

found it here.

Start thinking about cores

According to this blog entry from Intel:

"... the advice I’ll offer is that these developers should start thinking about tens, hundreds, and thousands of cores now in their algorithmic development and deployment pipeline. This starts at a pretty early stage of development; usually, the basic logic of the application should be influenced because it drives the asymptotic parallelism behaviors."

New MacPros!

Processing

• 8-core: Two 2.8GHz, 3.0GHz, or 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors
  
• Quad-core: One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processor
  
• Enhanced Intel Core microarchitecture
  
• • 12MB of L2 cache per processor (each pair of cores shares 6MB)
  • 128-bit SSE4 SIMD engine
  • 64-bit data paths and registers
  • Energy efficiency optimization
• 1600MHz, 64-bit dual independent frontside buses

Graphics and Displays

Double-wide, 16-lane PCI Express 2.0 graphics slot with one of the following graphics cards installed:

• ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and two dual-link DVI ports
• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and two dual-link DVI ports
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 with 1.5GB of GDDR3 memory, two dual-link DVI ports, and one stereo 3D port

I wonder what they will announce at MacWorld 2008...