Parallel Problem of Choice
andi | 2007/10/10There are quite a few parallel programming environments around: MPI, OpenMP, Ct, HPF, TBB,Shmemm, Portals, ZPL, BSP, CHARM++, Cilk, NESL, PVM, Pthreads, mpC, Tstreams, GA, TPIE, UPC, Titanium, Parlog, Split-C …
This creates a problem of choice for programmers, where one can argue that less choice would be beneficial; that it would allow to focus on improving the remaining languages.
An other argument is that a new and hence “yet another” parallel programming language will solve the problem.
This alone is an example of the problem of choice.
