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, ...

A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Chapters 3 & 4

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 ...

Microsoft’s Technical Computing Initiative

Monday, May 17th, 2010

I’m so excited to see Microsoft has announced it’s Technical Computing Initiative. You can see a bunch of interviewers with key people both inside and outside of Microsoft have to say here www.modelingtheworld.com  There’s lots of videos. As Tony Hey says (in his video on the site): “We did 20 years of research ...

A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Preface and Chapter 1

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

We’ve just dropped the preface and first chapter  to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. This is in addition to chapters 2 & 5 which released last week. Preface This book describes patterns for parallel programming, with code examples that use the Parallel Extensions of .NET Framework 4.0 and the ...

Seattle Code Camp

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

I’ve put the decks for today’s talks online you can download them. Due to the erupting volcano in Iceland Tiberiu Covaci couldn’t make Code Camp so Reed Copsey and I filled in the gaps. Talk Videos will be appearing here soon. Fast… Faster… FASTER! Adventures in ...

A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Chapters 2 and 5

Friday, April 16th, 2010

We’ve just dropped the first two chapters and sample code to the Parallel Programming Guide to CodePlex site. We have a group of advisors helping us with the content but if you you’re interested in reading what we have so far and providing feedback on it then ...

Seattle Code Camp is Coming

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

My talk, “Fast… Faster… FASTER!” got accepted at Seattle Code Camp. I’ll be speaking at 10:15 on Saturday 17th. In a rare display of organization I’ve even started writing the deck with a little help from Banksy on the graphics. I’ll also be putting some more of the source code ...

The Task Graph Pattern and ParaPLoP 2010

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

I’m off to ParaPLoP 2010 in Arizona this week to talk about my Task Graph Pattern paper and discuss another dozen or so papers. You can look at the patterns we’ll be discussing at they’re published on the agenda page. I’m busy reading through them and already found some ...

Parallel Programming Patterns Book

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Since running the Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop at PDC 2009  we (patterns & practices) have been working on what to do next to help people understand the opportunities and challenges afforded by parallelism and some of the new features of Visual Studio 2010. We’re in the process of ...

Parallel Programming Talks at Seattle Code Camp

Friday, February 26th, 2010

There are lots of interesting talks at Seattle Code Camp this year (April 17th and 18th). One of the biggest things I noticed was the number of talks on parallel computing, including one on patterns for parallel programming. I thought I’d submit something a bit different… Fast… Faster… FASTER! What happens when you ...