Quad core for trading?

Quote from pcvix:

Hi

With Intel rolling out new i5 and i7 CPUs, would anyone care to say a few words on which retail trading programs (execution front-end, charting, backtesting, etc) can take advantage of these quad core processors?

Is it true that many (most?) trading software applications have yet to be optimized for multi-threaded operation, and this situation seems unlikely to change in the near future?

Thanks.
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what are the new i5's?
 
Quote from dandxg:

A developer I know of is using it now and says it works well, but they didn't fix the real time volume issue!:mad: They don't seem to have any plans to fix it either.
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Let me qualify my statement since I was asked about in PM. There are indicators I am starting to use that require accurate time/sales data and NT 7 is still not going to store this info historically, whereas some other platforms due.
 
Quote from dandxg:

A developer I know of is using it now and says it works well, but they didn't fix the real time volume issue!:mad: They don't seem to have any plans to fix it either.
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A good programmer can fix it themselves.
Ninja like most software designers are too narrow minded to see the benefit volume plays into accurate chart analysis.
 
Quote from limitdown:

what are the new i5's?
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More or less an i7 with dual channel memory. (i7 has triple channel memory). Different CPU socket and (cheaper) motherboard.
 
Quote from dcraig:

More or less an i7 with dual channel memory. (i7 has triple channel memory). Different CPU socket and (cheaper) motherboard.
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And no Hyper-Threading technology - i7 has 8 lanes of traffic, i5 has 4. the i5 is the new QuadCore Technology
 
Hi

Thanks, all, for your feedback and input.

Seems sensible to get an i5 box early next year to replace my three-year-old E6400 for trading.
 
Quote from nitro:

It's gotten to the point where cores in traditional CPUs no longer help me. I need several hundred cores or even a cluster of these, and it is silly for me to buy a whole computer for this when either a GPU or an FPGA would do the trick.

This is the only technology that can appease me today:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/preconfigured_clusters.html

I don't remember the last time I was this excited waiting for a product:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/fermi_architecture.html
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A friend of mine is beta testing this with Google's new OS with amazing results. I'm in your corner on wanting one of me own.
 
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