One possible solution, devised by Intel and at NC State scientists, is moving the software queue to hardware. As explained in the above linked report, "This effectively turned three multistep ­software-queue operations into three simple instructions: Add data to the queue, take data from the queue, and put data close to where it's going to be needed next."In practical use a hardware queue management device (QMD) noticeably sped up tasks using data processing simulations. With QMD more cores show stronger gains – a 16 core CPU with QMD performed 20 times faster, for example. Furthermore, as the QMD is capable of simple computational functions it can aggregate data from multiple cores, expediting some basic computational functions.