A 30-year retrospective on HPC reveals a paradox: hardware capabilities have grown exponentially, but adoption of new parallel programming languages has stagnated. A keynote at HIPS 2025 examines why programming model innovation lags behind computational advances.
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30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages
HPC hardware performance has grown exponentially over 30 years while developers continue relying on legacy programming models — a structural innovation bottleneck that hampers the industry's ability to exploit available computational power.
Friday, April 17, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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