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04/07/2008: Taking Multi-core Programming Into The Bazaar: An Argument for Open Source Tools

All the major CPU manufacturers have thrown their lot in with multi-core designs. The (multi-billion dollar) question now is how to program these devices. I can tell you with some confidence that we don’t yet know what the answer will...

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Tagged: multicoresoftware, opensource, parallelprogramming, softwaredevelopment

01/03/2008: C for Throughput Computing

One of the challenges of enabling parallel computing broadly is that there is (understandably) some inertia around migrating programming tools, build environments, and, generally, 100’s of thousands or millions of lines of code to new programming models or compilers (especially...

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Tagged: parallelprogramming, programmingmodels, softwaredevelopment

08/03/2007: What Makes Parallel Programming Hard?

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...

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Tagged: bugs, parallelprogramming, softwaredevelopment, terascale

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...

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Tagged: dataparallel, multicore, parallelcomputing, parallelprogramming, softwaredevelopment, terascale