Is Multicore Hardware for General-Purpose Parallel Processing Broken?

The article presents the author's views on some shortcomings of parallel computing and the prospects for future. According to the author, the ideal impact would drive the field toward seeking possibility of systemic advancement. The author also states that many more application domains could benefit...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 35 - 40
Autor principal: Vishkin, Uzi
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2014
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