[Bradford] Multicore processing

[David Spencer]

> This was sent by a friend from outside the group. It's about Linux being
> able to scale to many core processing. Clever bods.
> http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/multicore-0930.html

Linux's highly parallel performance is in such good shape mostly thanks
to Paul McKenney, and his blog is a good place for both technical
material and readily understandable background.  Not only that, but you
can learn a huge amount from the way he does articles and presentations.

http://paulmck.livejournal.com/

(Some real good stuff is a screen or two back in the archive, from about
a year ago)

He's also written some really, really scary articles for the kernel
section at lwn.net

> If anyone can explain what this means at the next meeting....

When you've looked at some of this stuff you'll see why nobody is
volunteering!
-D.