Tim Mattson on Parallel Computing at the Research@Intel Blog

By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (69 posts) on June 28, 2007 at 8:50 am

Just came across this post by Tim Mattson, Intel Parallel Computing guru, over on the Research@Intel blog:

On the HW front, we are sweating the details. We know there will be many cores. We know the cores in a single processor may be different. We know there will be a scalable on-die interconnect and that the caches will need to adapt to the workloads to maximize locality. I've spoken to countless HW architects working on many core systems and frankly, the "big picture" view seems pretty well locked up.

But on the software front, it's chaos.

It's a great post, and gets at the biggest issue the software industry is facing today, and for the next decade, IMHO. Check it out, and let Tim know what you think in the comments.