Chinese name: Manchester mbth: Manchester Region: England Population: 437,000 British place names, geography, history, politics, transportation, population, education, sports, nightlife, processors, the British place name greater manchester was founded in 1974, mainly from Lancashire and Cheshire, and some people. The name "Manchester" is often used to refer to the whole metropolitan area (even extending beyond greater manchester), and its urban population ranks second in Britain, after London. Manchester people call them Manchester people. Manchester, Trafford, Tamside, salford, stockport and other towns have all been merged into the Manchester area. Geography Manchester is located in a basin, with Penning Wilderness in the north and east and Cheshire Plain in the south. The city center is located on the east bank of the Irwell River, near the confluence of two other rivers, the Mai Deloch River and the Ilg River. Mersey river also passes through the south of the city. Most of the inner cities are buildings, from which you can see the vast Yuan Ye. In addition, Manchester has developed rivers and is close to Liverpool Port and coal mines. Manchester has a humid climate, belonging to a temperate maritime climate, which is mild and rainy all year round. The average annual precipitation in this city is 809mm, with long duration and low precipitation intensity, often exceeding 1 hour, and it is rare to see a few minutes of heavy rain. Sometimes called rainy city. In winter, it is the city with the least snow in China. As early as ancient Rome, Manchester was inhabited, and a temporary castle was built here. The castle was rebuilt several times and became a transportation hub between Chester and Yorkshire. The castle was abandoned in the Middle Ages, and in the later period (about14th century), Manchester became a Flemish community. Most of them make a living by weaving, producing wool and flax, and begin to engage in cotton goods trade. Since then, Manchester has become a market. During the Industrial Revolution, Manchester became an industrial city from the 18th century, and a large number of textile mills were established here. At the same time, Manchester is also a distribution center, where many important warehouses have been established. The opening of the world's first passenger railway-the Liverpool-Manchester railway has also accelerated the development of this city. Since the beginning of the 20th century, due to the great recession, Manchester's industry began to be affected. During World War II, heavy industrial facilities in Manchester were severely bombed and destroyed by Nazi Germany. After the war, Manchester's industry began to decline, but its status as a big city has not changed. Great changes have taken place in the city of Manchester in the past ten years. A large number of buildings built before 1960 have been demolished and replaced by new buildings, while old factories have also been transformed into residential apartments. Political greater manchester Metropolitan County consists of 65,438+00 metropolitan areas: Manchester stockport Tanside Odham (municipality), rochdale Bailey (municipality), Bowden (municipality), Wigan (municipality), Trafford and salford. Towns in greater manchester Metropolitan Area include Searle, Altlingham, Candir, stockport, Ashton Lower Lane, oldham, Bury, rochdale, Glossop, stockport, Middleton and Stratford. Trafford and salford are usually understood as part of "Manchester Metropolitan Area", but Bowden and Wigan did not merge. Salford city centre and Manchester city centre are just separated by a river, only 20 meters apart. Traffic in Manchester occupies an important position in the history of railways. 1830 The Liverpool-Manchester Railway is the birthplace of railway passenger transport. In the past 50 years, the city center was almost surrounded by more than a dozen railway stations, but now there are only two main trunk railway stations in the city center-Victoria Railway Station and Piccadilly Railway Station, connecting Manchester and most parts of Britain. There are also several small stations in the city center: Oxford Road Station, Dianskidge Railway Station and Sharford Central Railway Station. Although there is no underground railway system in Manchester, there is still a light rail system connecting all districts of the city and surrounding the center of Manchester. The main highways serving Manchester are M56, M6, M6 1, M62 and M66, most of which are connected with the circular highway M60. Manchester Airlines International Airport is the third busiest passenger airport in Britain, and there is an airport train station that goes directly to the railway. In 2005, the passenger volume of the airport reached 2,265,438+million passengers, and more than 90 airlines reached 180 cities. Long-distance direct flights include new york, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, Las Vegas, Toronto, Damascus, Dubai, Doha, Karachi and Singapore (there was a Hong Kong route before, but it was later cancelled). There are also a large number of domestic routes and special lines flying to Europe, covering Antwerp, Belgium, Hamburg, Germany, Barcelona, Spain, Athens, Greece and so on. The legacy of the waterway industrial revolution is a huge canal system: the Manchester-Bowden-Puli Canal, the Nogdill Canal and the Manchester Canal all lead to the sea. Today, most canals are used for recreational purposes. There are also many artificial lakes in Manchester, which surround the rivers of the city. Because the population is located in the north-central part of England, when Manchester developed during the Industrial Revolution, a large number of rural people from neighboring rural areas and other parts of the British Isles came to Manchester to apply for jobs. Especially in the middle and late period of 1840s, because of the severe famine in Ireland, a large number of Irish people went to work in Manchester across the sea. This group of Irish immigrants and their descendants continue to exert their influence in Manchester. For example, every March, the city holds a large-scale parade to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, a traditional Irish Catholic festival. At present, about 35% of the population in Manchester and salford are Irish. In addition, since the 20th century, a large number of immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe moved to Manchester, mainly Jews. Manchester, Solver and Presich alone have 40,000 Jews living, making them the largest Jewish community in Britain outside London. Education There are two universities in Manchester: Manchester University and Manchester City University. The former is the largest full-time university in Britain, which was formed by the merger of former Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST in autumn 2004. Adjacent to salford is university of salford, only 2 miles from Manchester city centre. Together with the University of Bolton and the Royal Northern Conservatory of Music, the number of students in Manchester has reached 73,000, which is one of the largest places in Europe. Manchester University, Manchester City University and Royal Northern Conservatory of Music are all located in the south of the city center, forming a huge university area, which is divided into two halves by Oxford Road, the busiest road in Europe. University of Manchester University of Manchester was founded in 1824. It is one of the eight famous universities in the world, one of the top 50 universities in the world, ranking 26th in the world over the years, the first of the six famous "red brick universities" in Britain, and one of the founding members of Russell University Group, an "Ivy League" in Britain. Sports, especially football, is an important part of Manchester culture. The number of clubs in greater manchester has reached the highest per capita level in the world. There are two famous football clubs in Manchester: Manchester United and Manchester City, which are the participating clubs of the Premier League, the highest football league in Britain. Manchester City's home stadium is Manchester City Stadium, while Manchester United's home stadium, Old Trafford Stadium, is the largest football stadium in England, located in the suburb of Trafford. Manchester United is world-famous among the two clubs. 1992 After the establishment of the Premier League, it won the championship of 1 1, and it is also the club with the most champions in the Premier League. Other football clubs in greater manchester include Wigan Athletic Football Club, Bolton Wanderers Football Club, Oldham Football Club and stockport County Football Club. The nightlife of clubs such as Burleigh, rochdale, Manchester Football Club and Manchester United probably starts from 1993. The brewery's investment in bars, clubs and clubhouses, coupled with the support of local organizations, has made Manchester's evening economic growth obvious. There are more than 500 licensed entertainment venues in the city center, which can accommodate more than 250,000 tourists. A typical weekend night has 11-130,000 tourists, which brings about1100 million income and 12000 jobs. There is a gay community in C *** Street, and the first gay supermarket in Britain was opened with the investment of the Committee in infrastructure. Some new bars and clubs have opened in this area, attracting 20,000 tourists every weekend. Starting from 199 1, a very popular festival day is held every August. The TV series Homosexuals was filmed here. Processor Manchester This is the core type of the first dual-core processor released by AMD on the desktop platform in April 2005. It evolved from the core of Venice. Basically, it can be seen as two Venetian nuclei coupled together, but the degree of cooperation is relatively close. This is a tight coupling scheme based on independent cache. Its advantage is simple process, but its disadvantage is still not ideal. Manchester core adopts 90nm manufacturing technology, integrates dual-channel memory controller, supports1000 MHz hypertransport bus, and all adopt Socket 939 interface. The two cores of Manchester Core independently have a 5 12KB secondary cache, but the synchronization with the cache data of Intel's Smithfield Core and Presler Core depends on the arbitration unit on the North Bridge chip of the motherboard through the front-end bus transmission. What is different is that the two cores of Manchester Core are quite close in cooperation. The synchronization of cached data is controlled by the system request interface (SRI) built in the CPU, and the transmission can be realized inside the CPU. In this way, not only CPU resources are very few, but also memory bus resources are not needed. The data delay is greatly reduced compared with Intel's Smithfield core and Presler core, and the cooperation efficiency is obviously better than these two cores. However, because the cache of Manchester Core is still independent of each other, it is obviously inferior to Intel's intelligent cache technology represented by Yonah core in architecture. Of course, * * * shared cache technology needs to redesign the whole CPU architecture, which is much more difficult than simply coupling the two cores together.