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2006-11-04, 13:27:24
Valve's Hardware Days have become something of a staple in the world of the technical press. We first went out to visit the legendary game makers in order to see Lost Coast, then followed that up last year with coverage of the cinematic extensions to Day of Defeat.
This year, Valve is talking to us about what is possibly its most difficult iteration of the Source engine yet - adding multi-thread support to make the most of the new dual-core and quad-core CPUs coming from Intel and AMD. The timing of the day is to coincide with the release of Intel's Kentsfield quad-core chip, which is released today.
We had an hour-long presentation from Valve staff, then asked questions of the team, including Gabe Newell, for a further hour. We discussed the transition to multi-core in depth, and we have come away with a slick understanding of Valve's implementation, as well as a couple of benchmarks that we can use to demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach. This is an exciting one, so sit down and prepare for some multi-threaded crowbar action.
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Half-Life 2: Episode Two will be out at the beginning of next year. Expect the multi-threading update to the Source engine to hit before that. We will be looking further at the Source multi-threading benchmarks over the coming weeks.
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/11/02/Multi_core_in_the_Source_Engin/1.html
multi-threading - was denn sonst! :wink:
This year, Valve is talking to us about what is possibly its most difficult iteration of the Source engine yet - adding multi-thread support to make the most of the new dual-core and quad-core CPUs coming from Intel and AMD. The timing of the day is to coincide with the release of Intel's Kentsfield quad-core chip, which is released today.
We had an hour-long presentation from Valve staff, then asked questions of the team, including Gabe Newell, for a further hour. We discussed the transition to multi-core in depth, and we have come away with a slick understanding of Valve's implementation, as well as a couple of benchmarks that we can use to demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach. This is an exciting one, so sit down and prepare for some multi-threaded crowbar action.
...
Half-Life 2: Episode Two will be out at the beginning of next year. Expect the multi-threading update to the Source engine to hit before that. We will be looking further at the Source multi-threading benchmarks over the coming weeks.
http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/11/02/Multi_core_in_the_Source_Engin/1.html
multi-threading - was denn sonst! :wink: