Paper Info
Title
Parallel programming: can we PLEASE get it right this time?
Abstract
The computer industry has a problem. As Moore's law marches on, it will be exploited to double cores, not frequencies. But all those cores, growing to 8, 16 and beyond over the next several years, are of little value without parallel software. Where will this come from? With few exceptions, only graduate students and other strange people write parallel software. Even for numerically intensive applications, where parallel algorithms are well understood, professional software engineers almost never write parallel software. Somehow we need to (1) design many core systems programmers can actually use and (2) provide programmers with parallel programming environments that work. The good news is we have 25+ years of history in the HPC space to guide us. The bad news is that few people are paying attention to this experience. This talk looks at the history of parallel computing to develop a set of anecdotal rules to follow as we create many core systems and their programming environments. A common theme is that just about every mistake we could make has already been made by someone. So rather than reinvent these mistakes, let's learn from the past and "do it right this time".
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1391469.1391474
Anaheim, CA
Keywords
Field
DocType
strange people,parallel algorithm,parallel software,core systems programmer,programming environment,parallel programming environment,good news,bad news,parallel computing,professional software engineer,parallel algorithms,parallel programming,history,benchmark testing,parallel computer,software engineering,design patterns,application software,moore s law,programming,frequency,design pattern,parallel processing
Mistake,Computer science,Parallel algorithm,Parallel computing,Software design pattern,Software,Application software,Form of the Good,Benchmark (computing),Moore's law
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0738-100X
978-1-60558-115-6
15
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.65
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tim Mattson1231.60
Michael Wrinn2233.08