Winners in a Multicore World? ● Panel 1 - Prof Ian Foster (Univ. Chicago), Paul McKenney (IBM), Mark Moir (Oracle), Poul-Henning Kamp (Varnish) ● Which organisations, communities and industries will take advantage faster from multicore technologies? Would corporations like Intel, IBM, Oracle be clear winners because they “control the metal”? ● Would software companies i.e. Microsoft or Google or Facebook or Amazon be dominants or the world is getting ready to have a different OS for each application, or not having OS at all? ● Which is the role of communities (i.e. FLOSS) or entire industries (i.e. games, oil & gas, finance) driving the progress: will their “learnings” spillover through “slower” adopters? ● How disruptive are ARM based technologies and similar ones like Raspberry Pi, Parallella (Adapteva), etc? ● What happen in the embedded world? What are Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Ford, etc doing? ● Each panellist will do a 4' “mini presentation” and then we will open the debate to the floor