Workshop on transitioning to multicore (TMC 2011): overview abstract

Abstract

Multicore programming is both prevalent and difficult. Industry programmers deal with large amounts of legacy code and are increasingly relying on multithreading to provide scalability. The Transitioning to MultiCore (TMC) workshop is focused on tools and systems for parallel programming that are interoperable with legacy code, that minimize the annotation burden for developers, and match well with current industry practice. TMC 2011 was comprised of 7 paper presentations, a panel session, and a group discussion. The workshop structure and discussion results are summarized in this document.