How is rise of massive parallel processing capabilities changing the dynamics of computing
The rise of massive parallel processing capabilities that multi-core architecture brings in has plentiful opportunities and challenges. The recent $20m investment by Microsoft and Intel into the parallel computing research has created quite a buzz around this topic. How well we can utilize the multi-core architecture without rewriting any of the applications is a major challenge ahead since most of the applications are not designed to leverage the potential of multi cores to its fullest extent. The current multi-threaded applications leverage parallel processing capabilities to some extent but these threads do not scale beyond few cores and hence the current applications won't run any slower on more cores but they will run relatively slower compared to the new applications that can leverage this parallel processing architecture. The best way to cease an opportunity of utilizing the multi cores is to have a single theaded application seamlessly utilizing the potential of a multi-co