Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The result of all my F# hacking around over Christmas wasn’t just some notes on what not to do (my previous F# blog post). I actually got down to writing some more code for my n-body model in F#. I got down to reading some of “F# for ...
Tags: F#, NBody.net, Parallel Computing
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Dates for this year’s pattern languages workshop for parallel patterns have been announced. Not sure If I’ll be able to attend but it definitely looks interesting. ParaPLoP 2010 ParaPLoP 2010, a PLoP-style workshop on parallel programming patterns, will be March 30 - April ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
While I was at PDC Tibi Covaci interviewed me as part of his Five Minutes with… series. You can see the full interview here. Five Minutes with Ade Miller Ade Miller, manager of the Patterns and Practices group talks to Tibi about the ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Need to know how big the caches are on your processor? You could wade through the copious documentation on Intel or AMD’s web sites. It turns out this is no fun at all. I did this last week and still didn’t have the answer after skimming several white papers. ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Performance
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
One of the questions which came up in the Q&A panel at the end of our parallel patterns workshop on Monday was “Do we really need 512 cores, or even 24?” This is completely valid point. If I had that much compute power on the desktop what would I do ...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
I was speaking at our PDC Workshop today. We had a couple of hundred attendees and finished up with a great Q&A session; so many excellent questions that it actually overran. We didn’t leave the Conference Center until gone 6pm. I’ve posted Patterns of Parallel Programming Primer. The other ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
We’ve been busy working hard on our decks for the PDC Patterns of Parallel Programming workshop. You can see the preliminary agenda in the slide below. As you can see we’re planning to have plenty of time for questions and hope to cover a lot of ground.
One of my goals ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
The p&p Summit is in full swing this week in Redmond. Today I’ll be talking about Distributed agile Development and thinking about how to make the most of multi-core hardware. I was up preparing a pre-talk video last night. If I can shrink it small enough I’ll post it ...
Tags: p&p, p&p Summit 2009, Parallel Computing
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Coming to the Patterns of Parallel Programming workshop at PDC this year? Just thinking about it? We’ve put together a very short survey to try and gauge the audience and try and tailor our content. If you have two or three minutes, because that’s all it takes, fill ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
So I finally got around to putting some pages up about n-body modeling (link in nav bar above). Even if you’re not into numerical simulations, physics or any of that stuff some of the mixed language aspects of the code might be of interest. I’m not really ...
Tags: Mixed languages, NBody.net, Parallel Computing
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