Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!kale
From: kale@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: What's Next
Message-ID: <4800060@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 89 04:56:00 GMT
References: <2549@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Lines: 19
Nf-ID: #R:ssc-vax.UUCP:2549:m.cs.uiuc.edu:4800060:000:782
Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!kale    Mar 25 22:56:00 1989



Whats next in software development? No question about this..

"Machine Independent" Parallel Programming systems for MIMD machines.
Parallel processing will certainly emerge as a cost-effective solution.
There will be many different machine designs (shared memory, distributed 
memory, hierarchical.. cubes/meshes/...), and one would want to develop
programs that don't have to be changed any time they have to move to a
new machine (or even an upgrade).

We are developing such a system (Now you know :-) ) called the Chare Kernel,
and will be happy to send reports to anyone interested.
It runs programs without change on shared memory machines
as well as hypercubes.

The other languages/systems to watch are:
	Linda (David Gelernter, Yale), and
	Cantor (Chuck Seitz, Caltech).