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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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Looks like I’m going to be in Malmö in November for the Øredev Conference, 8-12 Nov. I’m doing two talks and expect to have some copies of our book to give out. Patterns of Parallel Programming (Thursday 10:15) Distributed Agile at Microsoft p&p (Friday 13:10) I ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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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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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
It’s Saturday and I’ve been working on my book on Parallel Programming, except for a brief break to go to CrossFit. Useful Piece of Information #1: Don’t do pull-ups until your hands are trashed if you’re planning on spending the afternoon typing. I had lots of useful ...
Tags: Parallel Computing, Patterns, Trivia
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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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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 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. ...
Tags: Parallel book, Patterns
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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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