// Keynote: The Landscape of Parallelism - Parallel Programming Models of Today and Tomorrow

Why is the world rushing to add Parallelism to base languages when consortiums and companies have been trying to fill that space for years? How is the landscape of Parallelism changing in the various standards, and specifications? I will give an overview as well as a deep dive into what C, C++ is doing to add parallelism, but also how consortiums like OpenMP is pushing forward into the world's first High-level Language support for GPGPU/Accelerators and SIMD programming. Finally, I will give a summary of how Transactional Memory will finally be supported through standardization.

// Michael Wong

is the CEO of OpenMP. He is the IBM and Canadian representative to the C++ Standard and OpenMP Committee. He is also a Director of ISOCPP.org and a VP, Vice-Chair of Programming Languages for Canada's Standard Council. He has so many titles, it's a wonder he can get anything done.

He chairs the WG21 SG5 Transactional Memory, and is the co-author of a number C++11/OpenMP/Transactional Memory features including generalized attributes, user-defined literals, inheriting constructors, weakly ordered memory models, and explicit conversion operators. Having been the past C++ team lead to IBM's XL C++ compiler means he has been messing around with designing C++ compilers for twenty years. His current research interest, i.e. what he would like to do if he had time is in the area of parallel programming, transactional memory, C++ benchmark performance, object model, generic programming and template metaprogramming. He holds a B.Sc from University of Toronto, and a Masters in Mathematics from University of Waterloo.

He has been asked to speak at ACCU, C++Now, Meeting C++, ADC++, CASCON, Bloomberg, CERN, and many Universities, research centers and companies, except his own, where he has to listen.

Now he and his wife loves to teach their two children to be curious about everything.