Making Parallel Programming Easy: Research Contributions from Illinois

This book summarizes the contributions of the Illinois Parallelism Center, through the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) funded by Intel and Microsoft during 2008-2010, and the Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC) funded by Intel during 2011-2013. The Center focused on three questions: What applications will require the increasing performance that parallelism can bring to client processors? What programming models and tools will facilitate productive development of such applications? What computer architectures will leverage most efficiently the many cores that future manycores may have?Ope