Link / News: University of Illinois gets funding to take parallel computing mainstream
My alma mater, The University of Illinois, just announced a joint venture with Microsoft, Intel, and the University of California at Berkeley which will enable commodity computer systems to make use of parallel computing techniques previously in the exclusive realm of super computers. You can read more here: http://www.upcrc.illinois.edu/news_031808.html
Wicked cool.
That, combined with reseach by compiler teams to make parallel computing more accessible is going to lead to a wild future.