PANEL: How do we make the 10+ million programmers out there productive in the
many-core era?


With the 10+ million programmers around the globe that are forced to thread
their code to take advantage of soon-to-come multicore chips with a hundred
cores, we are facing a giant dilemma. The purpose of this panel is to
illuminate this challenging situation from several angles:

1. Are we ready for a paradigm shift in programming languages?

2. What should an ideal programming model look like in the many-core era?

3. How can compilers/run-time systems/tools make programmers more productive?
 
4. What changes in the HW/SW architecture interface are needed to make more 
productive abstractions to higher layers?