University of Illinois computer science professor Josep Torrellas demonstrates that easing a programmer’s burden in parallel computing does not compromise system performance or increase the complexity of hardware implementation in an article in the December 2009 issue of Communications of the ACM.

In the article, Torrellas details his Bulk Multicore Architecture and calls for a change to the way in which multicore architectures are designed.

“While the computer science and engineering community has frequently focused on advancing the technology for parallel processing, this time around the stakes are truly high,” says Torrellas. “There is no other obvious route to higher computing performance than through parallelism.”

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