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Where to find beta testers for an auto-parallelization tool?

i'm helping a client set up a beta test program for a new auto-parallelization tool, but it's been tricky finding a large-enough set of good testers.

we're not looking for QA folks here. we're looking for developers who have an interest in the problem of parallelizing legacy code, in particular in the face of multicore, and who can give us feedback about how good the tool is, what needs to be improved, etc.

where do such developers hang out? where should we post to best find them?

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The Supercomputing conference or the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on parallel and distributed programming.

Depending on your credibility you might also find people at the national labs, but there are security issues...

Norman Ramsey  2009-05-05 04:43:35
but that's all folks who are interested in large-scale parallelism, with high scalability on the algorithmic level.the multicore challenge facing people is that you'll be running your run-of-the-mill app code on 49% cpu ... soon 24% .... then 11% ... and so forth. and it's going to happen fast.
Peter S Magnusson  2009-05-05 05:00:27

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