Open Collaborative Research: Multicore

The Open Collaborative Research program funds university computer scientists who work with their counterparts inside IBM to develop open source software.

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IBM researchersUniversity Researchers
David Bacon and Rodric RabbahKrste Asanovic, University of California, Berkeley
Calin CascavalKeshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin
Vijay SaraswatGuy Blelloch, Carnegie Mellon University
Vivek Sarkar, Rice University
Doug Lea, SUNY at Oswego


Bridging the software-hardware gap
IBM computer scientists David Bacon and Rodric Rabbah talk about Liquid Metal, an exploratory programming languages project that will give software programmers a means to realize customized hardware design.

When will we see applications for multicore systems?
Keshav Pingali, a computer scientist at the University of Texas in Austin, is working with IBM to develop the programming language that will give programmers the tools to write multicore-compatible code.

X10: Creating the next high-computing programming language. Vijay Saraswat and a team of IBM and university researchers are developing a programming language called X10 that is slated to work on a number of super-fast hardware architectures. 10 min., 40 sec.

Series producer: Barbara Finkelstein
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Last updated on January 6, 2009