It’s been a really busy week for me. Just put the wraps on a webinar that is premiering next week discussing multicore computing with Freescale. Ian Forsythe of Freescale will discuss the multicore challenge and their announced 8-core processor the P4080. I’ll follow up with a discussion of a strategy to migrate your application from single core to multicore.

Just a little taste of what will be in the session:

Linux’s inherent readiness for multicore

I hope you’ll attend. You can register for one of two timeslots:

• Thursday, September 11th 7 am ET /12 pm Western European Daylight

• Thursday, September 11th 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern

Here’s the more official description:

When considering a move to a multicore environment, the number one
question embedded developers ask is “how do I leverage the work I’ve
already done in my applications?” Though multicore hardware has
provided improved performance for the embedded market, software
developers are challenged with taking advantage of the millions of
lines of single-threaded legacy code they have already written. This
creates a paradigm shift in how developers must think about and
implement future programs. This webinar will discuss the benefits of
embedded Linux as a solution with multicore and help systems engineers
consider what’s important as they make the transition. We will
conclude with an overview of MontaVista TestDrive, a virtual
evaluation of MontaVista Linux on a Virtutech Simics model of the
Freescale QorIQ P4080 and MPC8641D Power Architecture processors. We
invite attendees to sign-up for an evaluation of MontaVista software
on the latest Freescale multicore environments.

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