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Some Thoughts About Concurrency by Ivan Sutherland (2010) [video]

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Published on Jul 23, 2010

Our industry has grown up with a sequential model of computing, evolved to husband the logic associated with a few vacuum tubes. Now we must struggle to harness the vast concurrency of modern transistor circuits. Is concurrency fundamentally hard, or does it just seem hard because of our history of sequential programming? I believe some of each. Concurrency is fundamentally hard for only two reasons. One is that concurrent action requires coordination. The other is that concurrent action of many processes can produce an exponential explosion of states. How can we be sure that all such states are benign?

Concurrency is easy when we escape its details. Maybe instead of "programming sequential processes" we might better "configure concurrent communication." A communication view of computing matches well the cost structure of modern hardware, where logic is now essentially free but moving data is relatively slow and expensive in time and energy. Making communication central to computation also prepares us for the increasing role geometry will play in the future of computing. New thinking may be essential to harnessing the vast concurrency provided by modern transistor circuits.