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 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 ...
Tags: Events, Parallel Computing, Technical computing
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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 ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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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 ...
Tags: Events, NBody.net, p&p, Parallel Computing, Performance
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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 ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Visual Studio
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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 ...
Tags: Coding, Events, Parallel Computing, Performance, Seattle
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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 ...
Tags: Events, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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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 ...
Tags: p&p, Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns, Visual Studio
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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 ...
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