An article in EDN indicates that multicore, combined with virtualization is having an impact on the server market, particular for x86 devices.
Virtualization, multicore disrupting server market, IDC says
Electronic News has a discussion with technical leaders from Greenhills, VirtuTech, CoWare and VaST. The article is titled It’s all about software now.
Embedded.com has a three part article by Luca Benini and Giovanni De Micheli on Networks on Chip (NoC) titled: The challenges of nextgen multicore networks-on-chip systems: Part 1. The first part is on line, with the others to follow.
The Power Architecture Developer Conference has been announced with abstracts due April 20, 2007. The conference is being held in Austin, TX on September 24 – 25, 2007.
The call for papers has been released for The 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology held in beautiful Aizu, Japan on October 16-19, 2007. Submissions are due April 27, 2007.
Mike Acton has a blog called Cell Performance that covers the IBM / Sony / Toshiba Cell BE from a gaming / PS3 perspective. Lots of good information on the Cell BE community as well as useful Cell BE programming discussions.
Prof. Saman Amarasinghe and Dr. Rodric Rabbah are teaching a course called 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer at M.I.T. in Spring 2007.  Presentations for all lectures are on-line.
David Patterson’s RAMP work has produced a manifesto for the future of multicore systems. The Berkeley Wiki page The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley contains a large amount of information on this work, including the 56 page report The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A
View from Berkeley.
In the EE Times article titled:Â Can software catch up to ICs? IBM’s Chief Architect for Next-Generation System Software ask the oft-asked questions about multicore software.
In an embedded.com article titled The software industry needs to adapt–and soon–to multicore chips an Intel spokesman complains that hardware peak performance has gotten ahead of what software can deliver. Then he goes on to state: “This hasn’t happened before” (!).