[X10-developers] Supercomputing 2008

[Russel W. <rus...@co...>]

Hello,

Concertant undertakes analysis and consultancy in all things multicore,
cluster and parallel.  One of our main "issues" just now, as you might
imagine, is what effect the final arrival of ubiquitous parallelism in
computing will have.  A specific issue I am looking at is what is going
to happen to programming over the next few years.  As more and more of
what used to be considered supercomputing moves to being mainstream,
everyday computing, will C, C++, and Fortran continue their domination,
will Java become bigger than it already is, will Groovy, Python and Ruby
evolve to stay relevant, will Intel become a slave to the JVM and the
CLR, will there be a place for C#?

I will be at Supercomputing 2008 Mon 17th through to Thu 20th Nov and am
hoping to meet with as many of the movers and shakers in the programming
arena that I can, so as to be able to come to some sort of view about
where programming is going.  I am especially wanting to look at Chapel,
Fortress, and X10.

Will anyone from the X10 management development team be at
Supercomputing and available for a meeting?

Thanks.

-- 
Russel.
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