[Info-vax] Intel previews new Itanium "Poulson" processor

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ik6pvg$9hh$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> 
> First, it's 4 -> 8 *cores*. So each CPU will behave as double the amount
> a "CPUs" as seen by e.g OpenVMS. That is, the scheduler has more "CPUs"
> to schedule process amongst. That in itself will of course make more
> jobb to be done, not by a single process but by the system as a whole.

   I know that may processors, starting with those in laptops, reduce
   power consumption when not particularly busy (like my laptop right
   now supporting byte transmission over SSH).

   I wonder if anyone has looked into halting some of those cores when
   not busy?  I'd hate to have the power companies burning more coal
   just to support all those null loops.