I'm not saying that multicore programming is a solved problem (far from it), but scientific computing seems to work reasonably well with OpenMP and Open MPI. P

I'm not saying that multicore programming is a solved problem (far from it), but scientific computing seems to work reasonably well with OpenMP and Open MPI. Personally, I like the Cilk[0, 1] approach, and it is simple to implement in most cases. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Cilk_Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Cilk_Plus