“programminglanguages” Tag

03/06/2008: Backward Compatibility ≠ Forward Scalability?

One of the constants valued by our developers is the backward compatibility provided by our architectures in the form of a consistent ISA. Historically, a corollary of this has been that legacy software has benefited from process and micro-architectural improvement....

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Tagged: multicore, parallelprogramming, programminglanguages, sse

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...

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Tagged: parallelcomputing, programminglanguages, programmingmodels

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...

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Tagged: choiceoverload, mpi, multicoresoftware, openmp, parallelcomputing, programminglanguages