Parallel computing used to be reserved for big science projects, but in two years that’s all changed. Even laptops and hand-helds use parallel processors. Unfortunately, the software hasn’t kept pace. Kahty Yelick, Director of NERSC, describes the resulting chaos and the computing community’s efforts to develop exciting applications that take advantage of hundreds of processors on a single chip.

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Posted on Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm and viewed 36,777 times.
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