title: Current "hot" topics in parallel programming?
body: <p>I hope this is the right place to ask[1], but I've read a lot of good comments on other topics here so I'll just ask. At the moment I'm searching for a topic for my dissertation (Ph.d in non-german countries I think), which must have to do something with parallelism or concurrency, etc. but otherwise I'm quite free to chose what I'm interested in. Also Everything with GPU's is not reasonable, because a colleague of me does already research on this topic and we'd like to have something else for me :)</p>
  
  <p>So, the magic questions is: What would you say are interesting topics in this area? Personally I'm interested in parallel functional programming languages and virtual machines in general but I'd say that a lot of work has been already done there or is actively researched (e.g. in the Haskell community).</p>
  
  <p>I'd greatly appreciate any help in pointing me to other interesting topics.</p>
  
  <p>Best regards,
  Michael</p>
  
  <p>PS: I've already looked at <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/212253/what-are-the-developments-going-on-in-all-languages-in-parallel-programming-area">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/212253/what-are-the-developments-going-on-in-all-languages-in-parallel-programming-area</a> but there weren't a lot of answers.</p>
  
  <p>[1] I've already asked at <a href="http://lambda-the-ultimate.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://lambda-the-ultimate.org</a> but the response was unfortunately not as much as expected.</p>