Scaling OLTP applications on commodity multi-core platforms

Multi-core processor architectures can have significant performance advantage over traditional single core designs, which are limited by power and processor complexity. Predictions based on Moore's Law state that a processor chip may accommodate thousands of cores in 5–10 years. Can software scale with the number of cores and achieve the performance potential?

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