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Data-Parallel Computing
by possibly noteworthy at 9:10 pm EDT, Apr 25, 2008 |
Until recently, performance improvement was not difficult. Processors just kept getting faster. Waiting a year for the customer's hardware to be upgraded was a valid optimization strategy. Nowadays, however, individual processors don't get much faster; systems just get more of them. Much comment has been made on coding paradigms to target multiple-processor cores, but the data-parallel paradigm is a newer approach that may just turn out to be easier to code to, and easier for processor manufacturers to implement.
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RE: Data-Parallel Computing
by voqk at 5:20 pm EDT, Jun 5, 2008 |
possibly noteworthy wrote: Until recently, performance improvement was not difficult. Processors just kept getting faster. Waiting a year for the customer's hardware to be upgraded was a valid optimization strategy. Nowadays, however, individual processors don't get much faster; systems just get more of them. Much comment has been made on coding paradigms to target multiple-processor cores, but the data-parallel paradigm is a newer approach that may just turn out to be easier to code to, and easier for processor manufacturers to implement.
Moore's Law couldn't hold true forever. If you're interested check out Pervasive Software out of Austin. They have exploited the inherent parallelism in data-flow and are working on a 100 % Java framework called DataRush that developers can use to create data intensive parallel applications w/o any concurrent programming knowledge. |
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