“parallelcomputing” Tag

03/19/2008: Introducing two “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”

Today, it’s a pleasure for me to report that Intel and Microsoft are joining forces to accelerate the mainstream adoption of highly parallel computing technology. Together, the two companies are pioneering the concept of industry-funded “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”...

03/19/2008: Andrew Chien on UPCRC is a Major Commitment to Long-range Parallel Computing Research

I can’t help but feel the excitement and optimism that accompanies the launching of a bold new venture which will involve nearly 90 talented researchers focused on parallel computing. We’ve got great partners in Microsoft, Berkeley, and Illinois, an exciting...

03/19/2008: Interview with Dave Patterson, Krste Asanovic and Kathy Yelick at Berkeley UPCRC Lab

While I was at our Berkely lablet open house in early March, I had a chance to interview some of the folks involved in the UPCRC lab on the UC Berkeley campus. It was exciting to learn more about this...

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...

11/28/2007: A New Law For Programming Languages?

I recently had a debate with a colleague about whether we should be investigating new programming languages for parallel computing given all the languages that have been developed in the last few decades. In the course of this, I made...

10/24/2007: Robotics, Earthquakes, cancer research….Intel?

Intel Research Pittsburgh Lab opened doors today to academia, press and just about anyone in the general Pittsburgh public who wanted to stop by. The open house buzzed with enthusiasm from an estimated nearly 200 attendees about the advancements the...

10/09/2007: Is anyone dumb enough to think yet another parallel language will solve our problems? I MIGHT be!

I have been pleased by the attention my blog on choice overload has received. I must admit, I overstated things a bit just to get people talking … and on that count, I clearly succeeded. In my present blog, I’d...

07/27/2007: Groundhog Day: A Personal Perspective on Multi-core Computing

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...

06/28/2007: Parallel Computing: making sequential software rare

In my job at Intel, I get to travel far and wide to meet with research groups working on parallel computing. And as travel, I am constantly struck by the differences between the state of HW and SW in parallel...