Bit by bit, we’re starting to see more practical applications on parallel programming models. What’s getting everybody interested in the concept of parallel programming today more so than any time in the last 10 years is that we have huge amounts of raw horsepower available in all these inexpensive multicore processors.
As the cores continue to multiply, developers want to take advantage of all those multicore processors to run more functions in parallel across as many processors as possible. Unfortunately, managing the orchestration of those processes is not easy. There are parallel programming development tools from Microsoft and Intel, for example, but they still require developers to master a lot of minute details.
