Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Mark Harris’ talk on Tuesday evening was really interesting. He outlined some of the key algorithms for data parallel computing: (Map) Reduce – e.g. Sum Split – e.g. Radix Sort, Trees Compact - remove unneeded elements Allocate ...
Tags: GPGPU, Parallel Computing, Patterns, San Jose
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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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Monday, September 13th, 2010
I got the chance to talk to David Starr of Pluralsight last week for his PluralCast podcast series. You can listen to the result here… Listen to this episode! [41:06] David will also be speaking at the p&p Symposium and possibly doing some more podcasts with ...
Tags: Parallel book, Parallel Computing, Patterns
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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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Friday, July 30th, 2010
It’s that time of year when everyone at patterns & practices starts to think about this year’s p&p Summit. Our regular get together with users and community members from around the World. We’re changing things around a bit this year and the first big difference is the name. This ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Parallel Computing
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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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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
I was doing some work on the Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET book yesterday. We’ve added some additional content to Appendix B to show some of the “visual patterns” that can tell you what’s wrong with your parallel code. Here’s one of those patterns… The image on the left ...
Tags: Gotchas, Parallel book, Parallel Computing
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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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