What's the next tech problem to be solved in softwaresecurity?

[mshines at purdue.edu (Michael S Hines)]

Distributed/parallel computing on multi-core processors.  We already have
dual-core with quad-core on the near horizon.  How will we develop software
to use this new computing technology.  In addition to code working properly,
you now have the added complexity of code running over itself - the timing
and synchronization issues.

It's not new - cluster computing has been around for a while and parallel
computing has been around for a while - but it hasn't been in desktop level
machines until recently - which brings the issues of parallel computing to a
whole new and large arena of developers and users.

We're going to have difficulty getting it to work right, let alone securely.


Mike H.


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Michael S Hines
mshines at purdue.edu