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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Monday, August 30th, 2010
We’ve been working with the F# Team to get the samples for Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET ported to F#. I’m happy to say these are going live today, just in time for the book launch. You can download them from the Parallel Patterns CodePlex site direct from ...
Tags: F#, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
I’ve upgraded the demo demo that goes with the TechEd 2010 parallel patterns talk. This is essentially the sample from Chapter 5 of “Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET” with additional work on on the UI to make it more “demoable”. Notably the UI is ...
Tags: Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
I was doing some work on the Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET book yesterday. We’ve added some additional content to Appendix B to show some of the “visual patterns” that can tell you what’s wrong with your parallel code. Here’s one of those patterns… The image on the left ...
Tags: Gotchas, Parallel book, Parallel Computing
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
After a lot of really hard work from a lot of different people over the past month or so we now have a preliminary draft of the book available for download. The first thing you might notice is that… We’ve changed the title. Parallel Programming with ...
Tags: Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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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 ...
Tags: Events, New Orleans, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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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. ...
Tags: Events, New Orleans, Parallel book, Parallel Computing
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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, ...
Tags: Events, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
We’ve just dropped another two chapters and sample code to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. These next two draft chapters are: Chapter 3 Parallel Tasks Chapter 2 shows how you can use a parallel loop to ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
I was lucky enough to attend ParaPLoP 2010 at the end of March. I got to meet many of the people I’d only know as voices on the end of the phone during the monthly Our Pattern Language workshops. You can see the papers we workshopped here. ...
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