Friday, September 01, 2006

opportunities for a multithreaded software company

two articles caught my attention today:

The CTO of Intel gave a talk at Stanford last week looking to stimulate multithreaded software development. It is not surprising that Intel needs software to target it's multi-core offering. The problems for software developers is to design scalable systems so that as Intel cranks out more and more cores on their chips, we don't have to undergo a software revision each time.

Another article is about algorithms for determining sub-oceanic topology from seismic data. Allan Willsky of "Signals and Systems" fame, has been working for Shell Oil on ways of crunching lots of data to speed up the mapping of underwater salt deposits. Sounds like an opportunity for acceleration.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

not just scalable, but hardware-independent (or, rather, hardware-transparent), like all good OSs should be...