At PDC 2008, we talked a lot about agents-based programming, in particular during the native C++ talks on parallel programming. We showed how the agents library that we plan to ship in VS 2010 can be used to overlap I/O with computationally intensive...

If anyone is interested, I just found the Channel 9 link to my Wednesday talk on the Concurrency Runtime. As I said earlier, the topic is a deep dive, so it's rather dry... http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL22/

The symposium panel Thursday went off pretty well. A much smaller crowd than at the other talks, but it was late in the program and people were starting heading home. It's not easy to compete with lunch, either. Not a lot of controversy on the panel...

I did my first talk Wednesday, "A Deep Dive Into the Concurrency Runtime," where I talked about how to extend the PPL and Agents native libraries and how to build your own scheduler with our runtime. A rather dry topic, I almost managed to bore myself...

It's been a long time since I last attended PDC, but now it's in full swing. Last night, I met with a group of customers and partners from Sweden and gave an impromptu presentation about manycore futures. Sweden is not a big country, but it seems the...

Next week is PDC 2008. Presentations are done, demos are being rehearsed, and I'm excited to go to my first PDC in 15 years. Last time, I worked for a partner, not for Microsoft. Anyway, my presentation "Deep Dive into the Concurrency Runtime' is Wednesday...