Hybrid Programming and Automated Programming: Current and Future Programmer Responsibilities a reading study

This project aims to explore hybrid and automated programming models, including an analysis of their advantages and disadvantages from a programmers perspective, as a step toward answering the question, Will automated programming models someday replace hybrid models as the norm on large-scale and heterogeneous architectures? This paper examines several hybrid and several automated models generally as well as the specific hybrid and automated models available for Intels new Xeon Phi coprocessors (often referred to as MIC for many integrated core). The new MIC coprocessors as well as Intels marketing for them represent a small but significant departure from the architectures and programming style around which many hybrid programming models are designed, making it interesting to consider how coprocessors may affect the future evolution of programming models.