Dr Russel Winder on IT-Analysis.com

Is Dataflow the new Black?

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Everyone is probably tired of reading that parallelism has now arrived after 30 years of being the coming technology. The problem is, however, that whilst computer hardware may now be capable of parallel computation, the software is not. [Read More...]

More Threads, More Trouble?

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

As I think most people in the computer industry are now aware, we have moved from a period of computers having ever-increasing clock speeds, to a period of computers having ever-increasing core count. [Read More...]

NVIDIA changes the game

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:00:00 +0100

David Kirk, Chief Scientist at NVIDIA, is on the offensive. It is a very charming offensive, and it seems his message is a very compelling one. The summary is GPGPU is dead, GPU Computing is the future for affordable supercomputing. [Read More...]

Pervasive Software's Datarush

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Our interest in Pervasive arises because their Datarush product is targeted at doing heavy searching and data analysis on large databases running on multi-core based systems [Read More...]

Will functional programming have a Renaissance?

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

And then came Java and that was it - imperative, and object-oriented in particular, won. Or did it? [Read More...]

Threads are the Problem not the Solution

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

With many years of parallel programming experience in the HPC and mainframe server communities, why is there a problem? [Read More...]

The problem with multi-core processor marketing

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

As we are probably all aware now, multi-core processors are the new black. The aim is to increase performance so that bigger and better applications can run. However the sales pitch could be just vacuous hype. [Read More...]

Problem? what problem?

Dr Russel Winder, Concertant — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Until all the applications that end-users use are rewritten to work properly with parallel hardware, users will have a problem - they may not benefit from the new technology no matter how many more cores they have. [Read More...]