MULTICORE PROGRAMMING PRACTICES GROUP

Objective
To define industry-wide, best practices to leverage existing code in multicore environments.

Overview of the Multicore Programming Practices (MPP)
Although the industry must continue with long term research into languages and methodologies, there is an important need to better understand how today’s C/C++ code may be written to be “multicore ready”. This will be accomplished under the influence of the MPP working group, the Multicore Association members who will ensure completeness, usefulness and industry-wide compatibility and work to create a standard “best practices” guide.

The benefits of such as guide include:

• The production of higher performing software, leveraging multicore advantages, compatible across a range of platforms
• Reduced bug rate due to multicore software issues, introducing structured verification approaches
• The development of portable multicore code which can be targeted at multiple
  platforms
• A reduction in the multicore programming learning curve and speed
  up of development time
• Ties into the current structure and roadmap of the Multicore Association’s API infrastructure

Status
The newly-established Multicore Programming Practices working group will hold regularly scheduled meetings, starting in June. Although the end product of this working group will be publicly available, we encourage you to join the Multicore Association to participate in the discussion and development phases of this project.

Chairpersons