[Beowulf] Parallel Programming Survey Report

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 09:46:26AM -0500, Douglas Eadline wrote:
> Last year Dr Dobb's did a survey of parallel programming.
> Today I received a copy of:
> 
> The Parallel Programming Landscape: Multicore has gone mainstream --
> but are developers ready?
> 
> It is mostly about multi-core and a bit Intel centric (they
> sponsored it) and not too much about HPC. Still interesting
> to see how the programming world is coping with multi-core.
> If you are interested in a copy you have to sign up here:
> 
> https://www.cmpadministration.com/ars/emailnew.do?mode=emailnew&P=P2&MZP=&L=&F=1003933&K=&cid_download
> 
> I'll probably read closer and post a summary on Cluster Monkey
> at some point.

While speaking about multicore, I recommend this 21 min
video interview (even if you dislike talking heads and
smarmy interviewers) with david Ungar:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/SPLASH-2011-David-Ungar-Self-ManyCore-and-Embracing-Non-Determinism