Parallel Processing
Links:
Google and IBM Announce University Initiative to Address Internet-Scale Computing Challenges
Lucene Hadoop - Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data.
Embedded software stuck at C - No parallel languages for multi-core on horizon. Mostly marketing hype from a panel of experts who don’t actually develop code.
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters(PDF)