Tim Mattson, a principal engineer at Intel’s Applications Research Laboratory, describes himself as an old-school parallel programmer. He’s been slinging code for impressively parallel machines since 1985. That makes him an authority in my book. He sounds like one too. Mattson was the keynote speaker at last week’s IEEE DATC Electronic Design Processes Workshop held in Monterey, California. He had a lot to say about programming parallel machines (increasingly common in the multicore SOC age) and he said it with passion and authority—a potent combination.
Multicore Parallel Programming: Can We Please do it Right This Time?
April 19, 2008