Meet The Serial Killers At Multicore World WLG 27/28 March

And maybe you should, especially if you’re someone involved in IT, like a CIO, a CTO or a software engineer/developer.

Something has happened in the chip world in the last few years.

A change so fundamental it’s created opportunities to do everything faster, better and cheaper - across the board.

Serial computing is dead. It’s just that most people don’t know it yet. But it is. Intel knows that. So does Google. And ARM, the UK company whose processors drive 90% of the world’s smartphones.

Weta Digital is in the new loop, along with the scientists pitching to have the massive Square Kilometre Array (SKA) located in Australasia.

For all of them, serial computing is an old technology, killed by parallel processing. Parallel processing (PP) relies on newgen chips, not with a single core but with multiple cores.

For most people, though, the technology is less important than the possibilities.

Which are immense, according to PP’s champions. Many of whom are coming to Wellington this month for Multicore World 2012, New Zealand’s first heads-up on this IT revolution.

Speakers at Multicore World (March 27-28) include:
- Intel Director of Software, James Reinders and Dr Tim Mattson from Intel Labs;
- John Goodacre, Director, ARM Processor Division; Weta Digital’s CTO, Sebastian Sylwan;
- Dr Mark Moir from Oracle Labs;
- Microsoft’s Artur Laksberg;
- the CSIRO’s Dr Tim Cornwell;
- and speakers from the Universities of Melbourne and Otago.

RIP single core CPU? Well, they’d say yes. And, whether you’re a convert or a sceptic, this is a great opportunity to meet the serial killers and explore the parallel universe.

Multicore World 2012 has been put together by New Zealand company, Open Parallel and there’s info and registration details on the website

www.MulticoreWorld.com

Speakers and abstracts http://multicoreworld.com/index.php/mw/index/pages/view/Speakers

Program http://multicoreworld.com/index.php/mw/mw12/schedConf/program

Registrations http://multicoreworld.com/index.php/mw/mw12/schedConf/registration

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