Dataflow-Style Java Parallel Programming Model and Runtime Optimization

TL;DR: The parallel landscape is frame with seven questions, and the following are recommended to explore the design space rapidly: • The overarching goal should be to make it easy to write programs that execute efficiently on highly parallel computing systems • The target should be 1000s of cores per chip, as these chips are built from processing elements that are the most efficient in MIPS (Million Instructions per Second) per watt, MIPS per area of silicon, and MIPS each development dollar.

TL;DR: The Click IP router can forward 64-byte packets at 73,000 packets per second, just 10% slower than Linux alone, and is easy to extend by adding additional elements, which are demonstrated with augmented configurations.

TL;DR: The Raw microprocessor research prototype uses a scalable instruction set architecture to attack the emerging wire-delay problem by providing a parallel, software interface to the gate, wire and pin resources of the chip.

TL;DR: For concurrent programming to become mainstream, threads must be discarded as a programming model, and nondeterminism should be judiciously and carefully introduced where needed, and it should be explicit in programs.