Monday, June 28, 2010

Feature - John Shalf talks parallel programming languages

Feature - John Shalf talks parallel programming languages

"...the most important thing moving forward is that everyone is now affected by parallelism. So the ideas have moved from being the interest of a handful of academics and supercomputing advocates to a mainstream problem that is important to the broader computing industry – the likes of Microsoft and Intel. This means it is even more imperative that we train future computer scientists to solve problems using parallelism from the get-go. The transformation of our educational system will be as big and disruptive as the changes to our software environment. So we’d better start now. ..."

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