PDC 2009: What’s Happening at the Patterns Workshop

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

We’ve been busy working hard on our decks for the PDC Patterns of Parallel Programming workshop. You can see the preliminary agenda in the slide below. As you can see we’re planning to have plenty of time for questions and hope to cover a lot of ground. One of my goals ...

PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Survey

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 ...

PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Facebook page

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 ...

PDC 2009: Patterns of Parallel Programming Resources

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 ...

Patterns of Parallel Programming; “It’s not just a recompile”

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 ...