The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#24 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#26 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#34 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? recent news items Intel Pledges 80 Core Processor in 5 Years http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/09/26/1937237.shtml Intel shows off 80-core processor http://news.com.com/Intel+shows+off+80-core+processor/2100-1006_3-6158181.html Next Windows To Get Multicore Redesign http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1257231 part of the issue is that a lot of the parallel processing has been limited to high-end market ... where highly skilled programming could be used to manage large amount of shared resources ... effectively concurrently working on different activity from independent sources. as parallel hardware has started to move downstream into standard consumer market ... issues in the past couple yrs is how to change the (mostly) sequential programming paradigm to better utilize the independent/parallel hardware resources that are available. the hardware technology motivation is that as components are shrinking ... things like signal latency and syncronized, serial operation are starting to represent a significant limiting factor ... going to asyncronous operation ... even across the distances involved in a typical chip ... can contributed to significant thruput increases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
