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12/17/2007: My programming model rules! Yours drools!

In a schoolyard playground somewhere in Silicon Valley … two programmers meet on the swing-set. P1: My programming language is easy to use and delivers high performance with only minimal programmer effort. P2: Well my language is better and is...

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Tagged: languages, parallelcomputing, parallelprogramming

10/02/2007: Parallel programming environments: less is more

The single most important paper for programming language designers to read came out in 2000. It wasn’t written by a computer scientist, mathematician, or physical scientist. It was written by a couple professors studying social psychology:...

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Tagged: choiceoverload, languages, mpi, openmp, parallelprogramming