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Guest Editors' Introduction: Parallelism on the Desktop

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Publicado en:IEEE Software vol. 28, no. 1 (Jan/Feb 2011), p. 14
Autor principal: Pankratius, Victor
Otros Autores: Schulte, Wolfram, Keutzer, Kurt
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IEEE Computer Society
Materias:
Central processing units > CPUs
Parallel processing
Computer programming
Computer industry
Software industry
Research
Computer science
Semiconductors
Programmers
Computer engineering
Transistors
Software engineering
Software development
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Resumen:The computer industry is experiencing a major shift: improved single processor performance via higher clock rates has reached its technical limits due to overheating. Fortunately, Moore's law still holds, so chip makers use transistors to boost performance through parallelism in multicore and manycore processors. However, exploiting the full potential of these processors requires parallel programming. Thus, a large number of developers need to parallelize desktop applications, including browsers, business applications, media processing, and other domain-specific applications. This is likely to result in the largest rewrite of software in the history of the desktop. To be successful, systematic engineering principles must be applied to parallelize performance-critical applications and environments. In light of these developments, we're pleased to present this special issue on programming methods, tools, and libraries for parallelizing desktop applications. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2011.8
Fuente:ABI/INFORM Global