Architecting parallel programs

The current shift from sequential to multicore and manycore processors presents serious challenges to software developers. A significant part of the industrial and research communities believes that either a) they can squeak by or b) the right compiler, parallel language etc will save them. Such ad hoc responses are likely to prove neither correct nor sustainable. To systematically find and exploit parallelism, and to achieve forward scalability - that is, designs which efficiently scale to much larger numbers of cores -- will require re-architecting software applications such as EDA.