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Here are a couple great photos (courtesy of
Joris Robijn)
from the NIWeek 2007 keynote*, which show LabVIEW's response to the
multicore
crisis:
The photo on the left shows two quotes, describing the industry's concern with
the state of parallel software:
"To fully exploit the power of processors working in parallel… new
software must deal with the problem [...]
Software developers and technologists everywhere are beginning to discuss the
looming "multicore crisis". In a nutshell, this crisis stems from the
fact that
processors
are no longer getting faster due to heat issues; they are just getting
cheaper, so, we're putting more of them in a single computer. Today's
multicore processors look like a single chip, but actually have [...]