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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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 35 - 40
Main Author: Vishkin, Uzi
Format: Opinion
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2014
Subjects:
Parallel processing
Computer systems
Technological progress
Electronic data processing
Computer programming
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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 significantly from exploiting irregular parallelism for speedups.