Software Pipelines and SOA: Releasing the Power of Multi-Core Processing

Preface

We’re now in the multi-core era. As consumers of computing power, we’ve all come to expect a never-ending increase in power, and CPU manufacturers are now using multi-core processors to continue that long-standing trend. If we want to take full advantage of this enormous capacity, our business applications must “do more than one thing at a time.” However, traditional parallel computing methods (such as multi-threading, SMP, and clustering) are either limiting or extremely difficult to implement—especially when used on top of application components that weren’t originally designed for a parallel world.

Software Pipelines architecture is a new architecture that specifically addresses the problem of using parallel processing in the ...