Gartner has published a list of the top 10 most disruptive technologies of the next 5 years, and multicore is number one.

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We would probably include cheap storage as the second item on the list - Fry's has 1-Terabyte drives for $169 this week - but the combination of cheap storage and multicore power is surely a disruptive pairing. Why is more power and space disruptive? It is because that additional capability is being provided in a new form, and this changes all the steps that come before it in the IT work flow. The old ways of utilizing this resource don't work, and the switch from a procedural code-path to a data flow architecture is certainly disruptive to all the programmers, analysts, coders, and architects that have to construct applications that run on these new platforms.

The whole industry seems to be waiting, holding back, looking for an approach that will save their efforts from the effects of this disruption. We encourage and are pushing for more examination and discussion around different approaches, because we believe that the more the software community understands the challenges, the better the dataflow paradigm looks for a whole category of applications.

Is your team looking at multicore approaches?