Making Multicore Happen
Welcome to the "Making Multicore Happen" blog with Markus Levy as your host.
Parallel Programming and Computer Science 101
It's been said more than once that parallel programming is hard, which suggests that the sooner you get a jump on concurrency, the better off you'll be. So when and how should programmers be introduced to parallalism?
Multicore Moments
Welcome to Multicore Moments where your hosts are Cameron and Tracey Hughes.
Graduating from Multitasking to Multiprogramming
For two decades, event-driven programming in multi-threaded environments created the cinematic illusion of parallel processing. Now that multicore chips have brought down the price of parallel processing to consumer levels, we are reminded that the programming practices which deliver efficiency in the multi-threaded emulation of parallelism are not genuine parallel algorithms.
Parallel@Illinois
The goal of the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UPCRC) is to make client parallel programming synonymous with programming. To that end, their key themes are a transformative change from current low-level bug-prone programming models to a disciplined parallel programming ecosystem, and a broad-based attack on parallelism at all levels of the stack that focuses on enabling performance, scalability, and support for programmability. For a complete and most interesting discussion of how UPCRC tackles parallel programming, see Parallel@Illinois: Pioneering and Promoting Parallel Computing.
Day 2: Trolltech -- Oops, that's -- Qt Developer Days
Actually, for me it's Day 1 of the Qt Developer Days Conference in Munich, although in fact, it is Day 2 of the conference -- Monday involved all-day tutorials, I'm told. However, officially according to Qt Software, who is putting on the event, it is still Day 1. See how confusing things can get when you don't speak German, Norwegian, Finnish, or any other of the languages you catch smatterings of at this event.
Multi-core Goes to the Movies, Or Who Brought the Popcorn?
The boss wanted me to report on the goings on at the Intel Developer Forum. I wanted to take the afternoon off and go to a movie. By the end of the day, however, we were both happy (as happy as the boss can be anyway). How did this happen? Knowing it couldn't possibly take 3,000 developers across the street to the Loews Metreon theatre, Intel brought the theatre to the developers.
