Yesterday, news broke regarding Microsoft and Intel launching parallel research centers at UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to investigate way to accelerate developments in mainstream parallel computing.  And today, we’ve posted some details and commentary on the subject over at HotHardware.  Here’s a snip from the piece… “Even today, writing software able to take advantage of multi-threading is notoriously difficult. In order to help drive the development of the tools