User:Netlogic/eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance

eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance, founded in April 2010, is a non-profit, industry organization aimed at driving innovations in multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development for next-generation enterprise, telecommunications and data center networks. Its members include a broad base of hardware and software providers through out the world and serves as the foundation upon which original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can more effectively and more efficiently develop high-performance networking equipment using multi-core processors.

The Alliance creates a platform on which developers can innovate to create new, breakthrough applications that can take full advantage of the performance and functionality of multi-core processors.

"We are in the early deployment phase of what is likely to be an industry-wide, multi-decade migration to multi-core processors across multiple markets and Tier One OEM platforms,” said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at The Linley Group. “Some of the key challenges in this migration include the significant effort required to parallelize software code originally developed for single-core processors, as well as the need to achieve efficient hardware partitioning between control and data plane processing. The eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance is a big step in accelerating the adoption of multi-core processors by bringing together partners to make best-in-class hardware and software available to system developers.”

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