IBM's Chief Architect Says Software is at Dead End

j2xs writes: "In this InformationWeek article Where's the Software to Catch Up to Multicore Computing? the Chief Architect at IBM gives some fairly compelling reasons why your favorite software will soon be rendered "deadly slow" (my words) because of new hardware architectures. Why? The darn s/w doesn't understand how to do work in parallel to take advantage of 16, 64, 128 cores on new processors. Science fiction? Think again. Intel just stated in an SD Times article (Jan 15, 2007 hardcopy issue) that 100% of its server processors will be multicore by end of 2007. We will never, ever return to single processor computers. In my view, software developers are in a state of denial and it's the end-users who will get burned in the end."