Slide Decks for the PDC ‘09 Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

I’m happy to say the the slide decks from the PDC workshop finally seem to have shown up online. They may have been there a while but I only just noticed them. Go to the PDC page for the workshop… Patterns of Parallel Programming: A ...

ParaPLoP 2010: Parallel Patterns Workshop

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 ...

Five Minutes with Tibi Covaci at PDC 09

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 ...

PDC, Parallel Computing and the Computer Controlled Toilet

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 ...

PDC Patterns of Parallel Programming Workshop

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 PDC decks ...