Sun rises over ANU multicore computing
ANU is responding to a shift in computing technology, which could bring supercomputing power to the desktop. Dr Peter Strazdins and Dr Alistair Rendell in the Department of Computer Science, CECS, have just taken delivery of a $30,000 T2 CoolThreads multicore processor donated by industry partner, Sun Microsystems. The processor will be used in the department's teaching and research programs, particularly for a new masters level course in multi-core computing that is being offered in 2009.
According to Dr Strazdins, there is an urgent need to train the next generation of software engineers to meet the demand that the new multicore processors will make of them, and the environments in which they will operate.
Read the full story in the Sunday Canberra Times, 13 July 2008.
