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Inside story: Parallel bars (The Economist)

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:15 pm
by Jamie
Pretty interesting article in the Economist yesterday about parallelism:

"Computing: Parallel programming, once an obscure niche, is the focus of increasing interest as “multicore” chips proliferate in ordinary PCs "

http://www.economist.com/node/18750706

Re: Inside story: Parallel bars (The Economist)

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:36 pm
by phalt
Ahh this is dead interesting, thanks Jamie - might have to retweet this too!

Re: Inside story: Parallel bars (The Economist)

Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:23 pm
by Skeksis
That was an interesting read, thanks for linking it Jamie.

Re: Inside story: Parallel bars (The Economist)

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:21 pm
by JohnR
In a very loosely related theme, I saw an ad recently for the 2011 Hot Chips conference in San Francisco that included the title "The XMOS Architecture and the XS1 Chips".

John

Re: Inside story: Parallel bars (The Economist)

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:02 pm
by phalt
Wow really? Can you find a link? :D

Re: Inside story: Parallel bars (The Economist)

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:22 am
by JohnR

Re: Inside story: Parallel bars (The Economist)

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:06 am
by DanB
A link directly to the mention of XMOS:

http://www.hotchips.org/program/program-23

4:15 PM-5:15 PM, The XMOS Arch and the XS1 chips, XMOS, David May