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Stanford Gets $6M to Research Parallel Processing; Aims at Virtual Worlds

Last month saw Berkley nab $10 million each from Microsoft and Intel to research coding for parallel processors. Now Stanford is set to announce its Pervasive Parallelism Lab with $6 million in funding over three years from Sun Microsystems, AMD, Nvidia, IBM, HP, and Intel. Most new computers already feature multi-core processors, but not all software (or, it often seems, very much of it) is ready to make use of them. Stanford's general goal is to improve programming techniques, but the head of the lab, Kunle Olukotun, says there are three specific areas of focus: virtual worlds, robotics and massive data analysis jobs.