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Only the First Steps of the Parallel Evolution Have Been Taken Thus Far

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We are roughly fives years into the multicore era of computing, and it is safe to say that a parallel evolution is well underway.We have only taken the first steps along this evolution. In my talk, and this paper, I offer a brief history of the evolution and predictions of four major trends that will, or have, emerged and help characterize the future.

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Reinders, J. (2012). Only the First Steps of the Parallel Evolution Have Been Taken Thus Far. In: Keller, R., Kramer, D., Weiss, JP. (eds) Facing the Multicore - Challenge II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7174. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30397-5_1

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