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More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US?

Posted by kdawson on from the maybe-it's-the-language dept.

simoniker writes "In a new weblog post on Dobbs Code Talk, Intel's James Reinders discusses the growth of concurrency in programming, suggesting that '...programming for multi-core is catching the imagination of programmers more in Japan, China, Russia, and India than in Europe and the United States.' He also comments: 'We see a significantly HIGHER interest in jumping on a parallelism from programmers with under 15 years experience, verses programmers with more than 15 years.' Any anecdotal evidence for or against from this community?"

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  1. Questions by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q1) Why did the multithreaded chicken cross the road?
    A1) to To other side. get the

    Q2) Why did the multithreaded chicken cross the road?
    A4) other to side. To the get

    It is funnier in the original Russian.

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
    1. Re:Questions by RuBLed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Whoa..

      Q: How many multithreaded person(s) does it take to change a light bulb?
      A: 5, 1 at each of the 4 ladders and 1 to pass the light bulb to the lucky one.

      Q: How many multithreaded person(s) does it take to change a light bulb?
      A: 4, each trying to screw the lightbulb.

      Q: How many multithreaded person(s) does it take to change a light bulb?
      A: I don't know what happened to them.

  2. real world problem by oni · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Name a single real world problem that doesn't parallelize.

    Childbirth. Regardless of how many women you assign to the task, it still takes nine months.

    (feel free to reply with snark, but that's a quote from Fred Brooks, so if your snarky reply makes it look like you haven't heard the quote before you will seem foolish)

    1. Re:real world problem by andphi · · Score: 5, Funny

      There is, however, the problem of process upkeep. One child process is a resource-hog. Multiple child processes seem to consume resources exponentially rather than linearly. How do you propose to optimize bandwidth to the mother process(es), supply sufficient inputs to the child process(es), or redirect the child process(es)' regularly scheduled core dumps? As a note, mother and child processes don't respond well to preemptive multitasking.