Friday, October 1st, 2010
The p&p dev team today had a random C++ moment (don’t worry it doesn’t happen often).
I’ve been playing around with C++, writing samples for “Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++” and am a big fan of the new C++0x lambda syntax. It does however make heavy use of brackets. The ...
Tags: C++, C++AMP, Coding, Parallel Computing
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Saturday, September 18th, 2010
So after I packed The Susan off home to Seattle it’s time to start my geek vacation in earnest… NVidia’s GPU Technology Conference. Monday was a set of fairly low key tutorials but Tuesday’s keynote by Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA, was very impressive. I’m somewhat jaded when it comes to ...
Tags: Coding, GPGPU, High Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, San Jose
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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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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 ...
Tags: Coding, Events, Parallel Computing, Seattle
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
I’ve been using Subversion to host my code on a Windows Home Server box for the past year or so. At about the same time distributed version control systems (DVCS) started to become the “hot new thing”. Git, Mercurial and Bazaar with their associated community hubs; GitHub, BitBucket and Launchpad ...
Tags: agile, Coding, Mercurial
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