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Gates to MVPs: Important to solve parallel programming challenge
Parallel programming will be one of the big new challenges facing the .NET development programming community, Bill Gates last week told key developers gathered for the Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Redmond.
Gates commended the hardware industry for continuing to create faster microprocessors, and pointed to the recent trend of multicore chips. “Now, instead of giving us higher clock speed, they're giving us more processors,” he noted.
“That's an interesting challenge,” he continued. “Because the ability to take multiple processors and use them in parallel has been a programming challenge going back many, many decades, so now it's important that we actually solve that problem, and make it possible for developers of all types to take advantage of these multi-core devices.”
“If we look at a typical desktop machine, today it's already got two processors, but if we look out even five years, it will be more like 16 or 32 processors, and even more at the level of the server,” Gates said.
For some .NET developers, the advent of multicore hardware architectures will require a crash course in parallelism, as well as threading methodology and principles. But the system programmer will see the greatest changes.
Gates said the move to multicores will further expand the role of the operating system, which, in his words, “will take on higher level tasks.”
“As applications are calling the operating system, the sophistication of doing this parallel programming will be handled in the operating system itself. And so we'll take the graphics layer and move it up to a much higher level of API,” Gates said.
He indicated this would be a year of implementation for programmers in the Microsoft community , after a few years of heavy emphasis on getting new product out the door.
Gates said: “I was thinking, wow, last year we had a lot of software in beta, a lot of hard work to get that into its final form. Today, we don't have as much in beta. [There is] a little bit of breathing room for everybody as we get ready for our next round.”
This was Gates first appearance before the MVP group since 2004. He is planning to retire from his role in day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008.
Bill Gates keynote MVP Summit, March 13,2007 http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2007/03-13MVPSummit.mspx
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