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SOFTWARE MEETS BUSINESS:
The Conference for Software Architectures
Munich, 30 January - 03 February 2017

Session details

Talk: KeyDo1
Date: Thu, 02.02.2017
Time: 12:00 - 12:45
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Parallel Programming Today

Time: 12:00 - 12:45
Talk: KeyDo1

 

Parallel programming was once considered to be exclusive to the realm of weather forecasters and particle
physicists working on multi-million dollar super computers while the rest of us relied on chip manufacturers
to produce faster CPUs every year. That era has come to an end. Clock speedups have been largely replaced
by having more CPU cores on a chip and more chips in a system.
A typical smart phone now has 2 to 4 cores, a typical laptop computer or tablet has 4 to 8 cores, servers have
dozens of cores, and supercomputers have thousands of cores. Each of these cores have 4 to 16 SIMD (Single
instruction, multiple data) lanes, and many systems also have GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) capable of
massively-parallel computations.
If you want to speed up a computation on modern hardware, you need to take advantage of the multiple
cores, SIMD units, and GPUs available. This talk provides an overview of the parallelism landscape. We‘ll
explore the what, why, and how of parallel programming, discuss the distinction between parallelism and
concurrency and how they overlap, and learn about the problems that one runs into. We‘ll conclude with a
brief exploration of how to begin designing for parallelism.