Archive for September, 2010
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
When do you know that something is truly mainstream? When there’s a “____ for Dummies” book for it. Apparently cluster computing has hit that mark. I found this at GTC. Platform Computing were giving them out at their booth. I guess if you factor in Azure and E2C into the ...
Tags: Books, GPGPU, San Jose
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Mark Harris’ talk on Tuesday evening was really interesting. He outlined some of the key algorithms for data parallel computing: (Map) Reduce – e.g. Sum Split – e.g. Radix Sort, Trees Compact - remove unneeded elements Allocate ...
Tags: GPGPU, Parallel Computing, Patterns, San Jose
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Saturday, September 18th, 2010
So after I packed The Susan off home to Seattle it’s time to start my geek vacation in earnest… NVidia’s GPU Technology Conference. Monday was a set of fairly low key tutorials but Tuesday’s keynote by Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA, was very impressive. I’m somewhat jaded when it comes to ...
Tags: Coding, GPGPU, High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, San Jose
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
I got the chance to talk to David Starr of Pluralsight last week for his PluralCast podcast series. You can listen to the result here… Listen to this episode! [41:06] David will also be speaking at the p&p Symposium and possibly doing some more podcasts with ...
Tags: Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
It’s been about eight months in the making but I’m very happy to announce that Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET: Design patterns for Decomposition, and Coordination on Multicore Architectures is now available! The book uses design patterns to help developers use the .NET 4 Task Parallel Library (TPL) ...
Tags: p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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