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Breaking the Barriers to Parallelization at Mach Speed BoF

Primary Session Leader:
Ronald W. Green  (Intel Corporation)

Secondary Session Leader:
Niraj Srivastava  (Interactive Supercomputing Inc.)
Birds-of-a-Feather Session
Tuesday,  12:15PM - 01:15PM
Room D139-140
Abstract:
With the proliferation of multicore processors and commodity clusters EVERYONE should be writing parallelized applications by now, shouldn't they? Outside of the HPC community there is a growing awareness that in the future all programs will need to be designed and developed to exploit parallelism. So why is there any hesitance? What are the barriers? Is it a lack of parallel programming education and training, a lack of software tools, operating system support, or is it just inertia from a juggernaut of serial algorithms and code dating back to the days of punched cards and paper tape? The BoF session _Breaking the Barriers to Parallelization at Mach Speed_ seeks to explore the diverse reasons behind decisions to not parallelize. Participants are invited to share their successful methods for reaching outside the HPC community to bring parallelization to a broader audience.
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