How We'll Program 1000 Cores - and Get Linus Ranting, Again

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 1, 2015 @07:00PM from the getting-a-good-start dept.

vikingpower writes For developers, 2015 got kick-started mentally by a Linus Torvald rant about parallel computing being a bunch of crock. Although Linus' rants are deservedly famous for the political incorrectness and (often) for their insight, it may be that Linus has overlooked Gustafson's Law. Back in 2012, the High Scalability blog already ran a post pointing towards new ways to think about parallel computing, especially the ideas of David Ungar, who thinks in the direction of lock-less computing of intermediary, possibly faulty results that are updated often. At the end of this year, we may be thinking differently about parallel server-side computing than we do today.

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Mutex lock by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-01 19:05 · Score: 5, Funny

All other ended up in a mutex lock situaton so I had chance to do the first post
1. Re:Mutex lock by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2015-01-01 19:19 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Thanks a lot asshole, a lot of were busy-waiting while you were typing.
2. Re:Mutex lock by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2015-01-01 19:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I think I a word.
  
  A lot of US were busy-waiting.
3. Re:Mutex lock by TheRaven64 · 2015-01-01 21:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's what happens when you try to write without a lock.
  
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Linus should try git by MichaelSmith · 2015-01-01 19:14 · Score: 3, Funny

...a tool which he may have heard off. It does connectionless, distributed data management, totally without locks.

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