Parallel hardware is now mainstream, but parallel software is not. While all consumer CPUs are now multi-core, software is still designed as mainly sequential. The "parallelisation" of legacy code is very expensive and requires developers with skills in both computer architecture and application...

Over the years computing has evolved to 'nearly always on' web-based mobile computing devices. In the near future we can expect that hardware will become a commodity and the value will be in the software to drive it and the data it generates. The data deluge will require an infrastructure that...