James Reinders is Director of Marketing and Sales for Intel’s Software Development Products and serves as their Chief Evangelist and Spokesperson. Here is a link to multicore Proust questionnaire given by Cilk Arts. Here are his answers to two important multicore related questions.
The most important problem to solve for multicore software:
Productive programming models (lots of them)
My worst fear about how multicore technology might evolve:
Software standardization (official or de facto) efforts will precede practice and experience
In a previous post, David Patterson said, “Making it as easy as sequential programming to write efficient, correct, portable software that can also scale as the number of cores doubles every two years” to answer the most important problem to solve for multicore software.
