Chapter 21
Conclusion and Future Outlook
Chapter Outline
21.1 Goals Revisited
21.2 Memory Model Evolution
21.3 Kernel Execution Control Evolution
21.4 Core Performance
21.5 Programming Environment
21.6 Future Outlook
You made it! We have arrived at the finishing line. In this final chapter, we will briefly review the goals that we have achieved through this book. Instead of drawing a conclusion, we will offer our vision for the future evolution of massively parallel processor architectures and how the advancements will impact parallel application development.
21.1 Goals Revisited
As we stated in Chapter 1, our primary goal is to teach you, the readers, how to program massively parallel processors. We promised that it would become easy ...
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