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Is Parallelism the New New Thing?

Posted by kdawson on from the still-working-on-the-old-new-thing dept.

astwon sends us to a blog post by parallel computing pioneer Bill McColl speculating that, with the cooling of Web 2.0, parallelism may be a hot new area for entrepreneurs and investors. (Take with requisite salt grains as he is the founder of a Silicon Valley company in this area.) McColl suggests a few other upcoming "new things," such as Saas as an appliance and massive memory systems. Worth a read.

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  1. About time by olddotter · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I was in graduate school in the mid '90's I thought Parallelism would be the next big thing. Needless to say I was a bit early on that prediction. Finally maybe those graduate classes and grant work will pay off. :-)

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    1. Re:About time by Gerzel · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Proprietary closed-source operating systems had these functions FIRST before Linux was a twinkle in Linus Torvalds's shorts."

      Do not mock the shorts of Torvalds, for they are mighty indeed!