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.”