Data parallel programming models have been “in vogue” lately because of their prevalence in GPGPU programming. As I alluded to in my previous blog, there are other reasons we should be looking at data parallelism….but not all of these models … Read more
In my last blog, I described why parallel programming is hard. In the next few blogs, I’ll start to describe how we’re trying to make it easy (there’s tons of good work at Intel on this). When I first started … Read more
One of the challenges of multi-core and tera-scale architecture is how to make parallel programming “easier”. But what makes it hard in the first place? I thought it might be worth explaining some of our experiences with this as a … Read more
In the 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day”, Bill Murray finds himself reliving the same (eponymous) day again and again until he mends his ways and becomes a better person. Nearly twenty years ago, when I entered graduate school, parallel computing was … Read more
