Welcome to U.C. Berkeley's Parallel Lab web and wiki page.
Starting in February 2005, a multidisciplinary group of Berkeley researchers met weekly to discuss the implications of the parallel revolution for applications, programming models, architecture, and operating systems. These “Berkeley View” discussions created a synergistic environment that led to the creation of the Parallel Computing Laboratory (“Par Lab”) starting officially January 21, 2008.
We decided on a fresh approach: to start top-down from applications; to innovate across disciplinary boundaries by creating a culture that encourages interaction and cooperation; and to create prototypes that can be quickly adapted to reflect multidisciplinary innovation.
To learn more about our ideas, go to http://view.eecs.berkeley.edu
Or see the slides from a Berkeley View 2.0 talk given by David Patterson in October 2007 at the University of Waterloo and at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.