On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 08:16 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > a couple recent items: > > The death of single threaded development > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=519 > Google Acquires Multicore Programming Startup PeakStream -- > Multithreaded Programming > http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199901501 > Intel updates compilers for multicore era > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070605-intel-updates-compilers-for-multicore-era.html > Sun Updates Studio For Multi-core Development > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3681151 > Sun stresses multicore chips, Linux with dev tool > http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070604/tc_infoworld/89028 > Scots firm demonstrates parallelizing compiler at MPF > http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199700792
Mmmmm - seems to be just a "warming over" of the multi-programming versus parallel discussion. With the exception of that last link, I'd need serious convincing any of them are "parallel programming". I suspect in the not too distant future, "multi-threaded" will supplant (in the common vernacular) all notions of "parallel". If not already ... Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
