EDP 2008 Parallel Computing Bingo

17 Transistors are free 9 Mutilate the algorithm to match the architecture 24 We don't have any other choice 13 Universities don't teach parallel programming 23 Everyone will encode video 24 hours a day
20 Our ideas are so revolutionary, we can't even simulate them 12 AI 3 Scale up the problem size 19 This new programming language will fix everything 7 Compare with parallel implementation rather than best serial
15 Programmers are lazy 5 Compare to scalar unoptimized Cray FREE 1 Inner kernel, not the system 2 Compare assembly to Fortran or C
14 We've never had parallel systems before 6 Compare with old, obsolete system 0 Quote 32-bit as 64 16 The previous generation didn't know about Moore's Law 11 Show Pretty Pictures
8 Quote processor utilization 10 Compare dedicated system to multi-user 4 Project linearly 21 We'll demonstrate that it works next year 22 All computing tasks are just like ray tracing
With the end of clock rate scaling, there's been a mad dash towards multi-core architectures. While not widely known, there has in fact been prior attempts to use parallel computing. Things have not necessarily gone well. To make the impending disaster more entertaining, we can play Parallel Computing Bingo while listening to technical talks and keynotes; this is a game similar to WWDC Bingo. On the bingo card are twelve classic observations from a 1991 paper by David Blyler, highlighting ways in which the performance of parallel computers were completely misrepresented. Many of these are alive and well, and appear on a regular basis. The second set of twelve are the result of a highly scientific study performed at the 2008 IEEE DATC Electronic Design Processes workshop. Together, with a center "free" cell, they make a bingo card that can be played at conferences around the world. Individual bingo cards can be downloaded from the EDP web site. For more information about the original 12, please refer to: Misleading Performance in Supercomputing Field by D. H. Bailey. In summary, they are as follows.