Parallel Programming Talk #38 - Listener Question "Senior Project"

By Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) (118 posts) on July 7, 2009 at 1:05 pm

For our first Thursday of the month Listener Question show we choose a question from the Parallel Programming forum.

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News:
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Threading Challenge Update
We have a winner for Challenge #4: "BradleyKuszmaul" code for String Matching. Continued congratulations to "Denghui0815" who is our 1st & 3rd problem winner and "Haojn" who won our second problem.

On June 23 Intel releases some major updates to many of our developer tools.
The specific new product versions are:

Upcoming Events

July 17 - Intel Parallelism Training - Santa Clara - Free
July 19-20, 2009 - Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging (PADTAD - VII). Presentations by Intel and CILK
Aug 19-21 - UC Berkeley Par Lab Boot Camp

Listener Question Show

Our next listener question show is August 4 – send in questions or idea for our show to parallelprogrammingtalk@intel.com.

On Today's Show:

Anugraha asks: "I'm doing my final year bachelors in computer science and engineering.I would like to get some suggestions for my final year project in parallel computing on multi-core processors." Listen to the show to hear the advice that Aaron and Clay provide and join in the continuing discussion in the Parallel Programming Forum.

Coming up on Parallel Programming Talk:

July 14 - Dr. Ralph Johnson and Parallel Programming Patterns

Clay Breshears and Michael Wrinn will host Ralph Johnson, one of the “Gang of Four”. Ralph is currently involved in outlining and defining parallel programming patterns and was one of the organizers of the recent ParaPLOP conference held in Santa Cruz the first week of June, which Michael attended. Join us to find out what the current thought is on being able to use programming patterns for parallel programs. Will it be as successful as it was for Object-Oriented programming?

July 21 - "Is Parallel Programming Hard?" with Prof. Guy Blelloch of Carnegie Mellon University

Aaron and Clay will be talking with Dr. Blelloch about his views that with the right level of abstraction, Parallel Programming is not and in fact can be as easy as sequential programming. He does note that, however, that "at the right level of abstraction" should be considered with care. :)