In "Break Amdahl’s Law!", I described ways to enable scalable applications, and wrote in part: But don’t show me ray-traced bouncing balls or Mandelbrot graphics or the other usual embarrassingly parallel but niche (or downright useless) clichés—what we’re looking for are real ideas of real software we could imagine real kids and grandmothers using that [...]
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How parallelism demos are useful
Posted in Concurrency on 2008-02-01 | 4 Comments »