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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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
I’ve created a Patterns of Parallel Programming Facebook page… We’ll be posting updates to this page in the next couple of months before PDC. If you’re planning on attending the workshop itself or just PDC then sign up. I’d really like to get some ideas as to ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
A while back I wrote about Parallel Computing: The Old new Thing. One of the things p&p is doing to help developers be successful in this space is to talk about the underlying patterns. We’re running a workshop at PDC as a first step in this effort.
The preCon sessions ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Last week Robert Hess interviewed me for the Knowledge Chamber on Channel 9. We talked about why understanding the fundamentals of patterns for writing parallel software is going to become more and more important over the next few years. Why simply recompiling your code for the latest processor from Intel ...
Tags: Concurrency, Events, p&p, Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009, Trivia
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
In part 1 and part 2 of my thread on C# optimization there was a lot of talk about algorithms and the like. The next two posts take a different tack… first re-implementing the same algorithm using different languages and then in a different language and hardware. It turns out ...
Tags: C#, Coding, Concurrency, NBody.net, Parallel Computing, Performance
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
The patterns & practices team are hosting a Pre-Conference Day at the Professional Developers Conference 2009. We've got a great day lined up for you with speakers like Herb Sutter and Steven Toub—Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform—and Richard Ciapala—Principle Developer on the HPC Server team. The ...
Tags: Events, NBody.net, p&p, Parallel Computing, Patterns, PDC 2009
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Dates and an session schedule for this year’s patterns & practices Summit have been announced. The next patterns & practices Summit takes place October 12-16 in the Kodiak Room at the Microsoft Conference Center at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers including Martin ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, NBody.net, p&p, p&p Summit 2009, Parallel Computing, Seattle
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
The N-body modeling code and visualization I’ve been working on finally got off the ground in some sort of reasonable form last night. Here you can see it running with 5000 stars at over 30 frames a second.
It’s been working from the start (agile/TDD isn’t something you just write about) ...
Tags: EntLib, NBody.net, Parallel Computing, Prism, Technical computing, Unity, WPF
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
I found the time to attend ALT.NET Canada in Vancouver this past weekend. This turned out to be quite the event and I had a great time. Several other people from the Puget Sound area made the journey including myself and Bob from p&p.
As with all Open Spaces conferences “The ...
Tags: ALT.NET, Events, Parallel Computing, Vancouver
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