Multicore World is a small conference held annually in New Zealand hosted by Open Parallel. What it lacks in numbers however it makes up in quality of the presenters. The 2017 conference included a typically impressive array of speakers dealing with some of the most difficult issues facing computational science, and included several important announcements in the fields of supercomputing, the Internet of Things, and manufacting issues.

Multicore World 2017: A Review is presentation (with notes) to Linux Users of Victoria for their March main meeting, providing a summary of the most recent conference as well as a some critical observations.