How to build a useful thousand-core manycore system?

Current hardware roadmaps call for doubling the number of on-chip cores approximately every two years. If this trend materializes, in at most a decade and a half, we will reach one thousand cores. This scenario has mind-boggling consequences for the IPDPS research community. There are many questions to answer. For example, at the architecture level, how are we going to power these chips and provide the required bandwidth? At the software level, how are we going to manage possibly-heterogeneous resources with low overhead, efficiently compile for these machines, and provide programmer-friendly programming models? At the application level, what kinds of applications and algorithms will we use? This panel will provide an opportunity for the conference attendees to discuss all of these topics.