Face the Inevitable, Embrace Parallelism.

The article gives the author's viewpoint that hardware engineers and software developers should recognize trends toward parallel programming and design their computer applications accordingly. The author discusses software abstraction, Moore's Law concerning transistor power and the acceleration of...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 9; pp. 36 - 39
Formato:	Opinion
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Sep2009
Materias:	Parallel programs (Computer programs) Parallel programming Software architecture Moore's law Computer software development Computer input-output equipment
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Sumario:	The article gives the author's viewpoint that hardware engineers and software developers should recognize trends toward parallel programming and design their computer applications accordingly. The author discusses software abstraction, Moore's Law concerning transistor power and the acceleration of processing requirements, and the experience of the end user.