Archive for June, 2010

Murder, Blood and Thread Safe Singletons

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

It’s Saturday and I’ve been working on my book on Parallel Programming, except for a brief break to go to CrossFit. Useful Piece of Information #1: Don’t do pull-ups until your hands are trashed if you’re planning on spending the afternoon typing. I had lots of useful ...

Patterns of Parallel Programming – TechEd Talk Online

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

The deck and video from my talk at TechEd 2010 are now available online. The talk walks through many of the patterns in the book “A Guide to Parallel Programming” and uses many of the nice artwork we’ve had created for the book. Tiberiu Covaci ...

The One Minute Commute

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Zach Grossbart has published the first few chapters of his book “The One Minute Commute” online. The chapters look very promising and I’m looking forward to reading the book as it is published. Chapter 1 - Introduction The Plan of The One ...

A Guide to Parallel Programming – Book and Talk at TechEd

Monday, June 7th, 2010

So I finally took delivery of beta version of “A Guide to Parallel Programming”. This contains the Preface, Introduction and Chapters 2: Parallel Loops and Chapter 5: Futures. They arrived at TechEd and I had a very sweaty time getting them from the hotel to the conference center. ...

A Guide to Parallel Programming – TechEd Events

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

I’ll also be talking about the book at TechEd in New Orleans next week. I have one talk scheduled… ARC205 | Patterns of Parallel Programming Room 276, Tuesday 5:00pm - 6:15pm Multi-core and HPC technologies are rapidly moving into the computing mainstream, allowing us to develop applications with improved performance, increased responsiveness, ...