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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. Re:Multithreading Is to Blame by MOBE2001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You seem confused. I simply said I can do it and I know other developers who can. Just because the majority of developers can't doesn't mean it has "failed": it just means there are a lot of mediocre developers who need new tools to manage the job, which is where that $20million is being spent. AMD and Intel and others want to make it easier for you. Personally I'm quite at home writing multithreaded kernel level C, but clearly not everyone is.

    IOW, you're smart and everybody else is an idiot. You sound like a pompous ass to me. So much for your solution to the parallel programming problem.