With all programming about to become parallel programming, the industry's famous Wintel twins, Microsoft and Intel, said this afternoon that they will be putting $20 million into university research over the next five years. Their objective is to make parallel programming easier and mainstream, the stuff of laptops, desktops and mobile devices, ubiquitous from the laptop to the petaflop. They are funneling the money into two new Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRCs) - one at Berkeley, the other at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) - that will seek breakthroughs in parallel programming applications, architecture and operating systems software.