multi-core software

[Patricia Shanahan]

Jon Harrop wrote:
...
> Historically, concurrency has been of general interest on single core
> machines in the context of operating systems and IO and has become more
> important recently due to the ubiquity of web programming. Parallelism was
> once only important to computational scientists programming shared-memory
> supercomputers and enterprise developers programming distributed-memory
> clusters but the advent of multicore machines on the desktop and in the
> games console has pushed parallelism into the lime light for ordinary
> developers when performance is important.
...

Parallelism has also been important, for a long time, to multiprocessor
operating system developers. I got my first exposure to parallel
programming, in the 1980's, working on NCR's VRX operating system.

Patricia