SW Weenies: Ready for CMT?

tbray writes "The hardware guys are getting ready to toss this big hairy package over the wall: CMT (Chip Multi Threading) and TLP (Thread Level Parallelism). Think about a chip that isn't that fast but runs 32 threads in hardware. This year, more threads next year. How do you make your code run fast? Anyhow, I was just at a high-level Sun meeting about this stuff, and we don't know the answers, but I pulled together some of the questions."

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Here is a tip for you hardware guys...

[dwalsh]

If you want us to accommodate your inability to improve single threaded performance and rearchitect 20 years of software for parallel computing, then how about this:

DON'T CALL US WEENIES! Ya bunch of Verilog writin', pocket protector wearing misfits, who take six months to implement what we can do in five lines of code, and cannot maintain app. integrity even in a single core non-hyperthreaded CPU! (See here: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~abhik/pdf/pact04.pdf).

Yours Sincerely,
A Software Engineer.