Faster computing results without fear of errors
By Adam Zewe, June 10 '22
- https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/faster-computing-results-without-fear-errors

"Researchers have pioneered a technique that can dramatically
accelerate certain types of computer programs automatically, while
ensuring program results remain accurate.
Their system boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix
shell, a ubiquitous programming environment created 50 years ago
that is still widely used today. Their method parallelizes these
programs, which means that it splits program components into pieces
that can be run simultaneously on multiple computer processors.
This enables programs to execute tasks like web indexing, natural
language processing, or analyzing data in a fraction of their
original runtime.
"There are so many people who use these types of programs, like
data scientists, biologists, engineers, and economists. Now they
can automatically accelerate their programs without fear that they
will get incorrect results," says Nikos Vasilakis, research
scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT.
The system also makes it easy for the programmers who develop tools
that data scientists, biologists, engineers, and others use. They
don't need to make any special adjustments to their program
commands to enable this automatic, error-free parallelization, adds
Vasilakis, who chairs a committee of researchers from around the
world who have been working on this system for nearly two years." ...

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