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 ## List of teatime themes:
+- [Ferenbaugh, Charles: Developer Productivity on Novel Architectures (or, Surviving in the Wild West)](ferenbaugh-novel-architectures.md)
 - [Gates, Jason: Training Best Practices](gates-training-best-practices.md)
 
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+# Developer Productivity on Novel Architectures (or, Surviving in the Wild West)
+
+*Teatime theme - Collegeville 2020*
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+*Charles Ferenbaugh, Los Alamos National Laboratory*
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+In the past decade or so, large-scale software projects have started to support
+novel architectures that are wildly different from the standard CPU model:
+multi-core, many-core, IBM Cell, GPGPU (from multiple vendors!), ....
+Developing for these architectures, especially when trying to write performant
+code, can bring particular challenges to productivity such as:
+
+-	How to reconcile fast-changing new models and libraries with stable production code?
+-	How to support new platforms without degrading performance on existing platforms?
+-	How to deal with toolchain support (compilers, debuggers, test harnesses, ...) that is missing or immature?
+
+In this teatime we'll discuss these questions, and other related ones as they
+arise. Please bring your questions, experiences, failures, and successes to
+share with the group!
+