The last mile: Parallel programming and usability

Proceedings of the FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research, FoSER 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 309-313

  Sadowski, Caitlin ^a   Shewmaker, Andrew ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Human factors; Languages; Measurement; Performance

Indexed keywords

HIGH PERFORMANCE CODES; HUMAN FACTORS; KEY FACTORS; LANGUAGES; LAST MILE; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PARALLEL CODE; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAMMER PRODUCTIVITY; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE;

CLOUD COMPUTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79951662156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1882362.1882426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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