The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-183.html

The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley
Krste Asanovic, Ras Bodik, Bryan Christopher Catanzaro, Joseph James Gebis, Parry Husbands, Kurt Keutzer, David A. Patterson, William Lester Plishker, John Shalf, Samuel Webb Williams and Katherine A. Yelick

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-183.pdf

Instead of traditional benchmarks, use 13 "Dwarfs" to design and evaluate parallel programming models and architectures. (A dwarf is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation and communication.)

Since real world applications are naturally parallel and hardware is naturally parallel, what we need is a programming model, system software, and a supporting architecture that are naturally parallel. Researchers have the rare opportunity to re-invent these cornerstones of computing, provided they simplify the efficient programming of highly parallel systems.

... see pg 17-19 for the summary table of the '13 dwarfs' or classes of programming techniques

inspired by Andrew Brownsword's (EA BlackBox) talk