Contagious Curiosity : Parallel Computing

What’s Axum?

llangit — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:59:28 GMT

A domain specific language for concurrent programming, formerly known as "Maestro", developed by the Parallel Computing Platform team. Watch this Channel9 video to learn more – here. Get the bits and play – here. The MS team blog for Axum is here.

What's in your Visual Studio?

llangit — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:11:16 GMT

As I continue my current language-exploring mode, I've noticed that Visual Studio 2008 is becoming a candy store for me. Is it just me, or do we have an incredible amount of new stuff to play with? I can't really remember the last time I watched TV, other than Slumdog Millionaire there hasn't been a movie to catch my interest for awhile and when I am done coding, I just want to read a technical book to 'go deeper' in this stuff. I going to need a geek-intervention soon if I keep it up at this rate! Now I am looking at the Visual Studio Extensibility Center, uh oh...

Here's my list of installed stuff- Azure SDK, Robotics SDK, Spec # CTP, IronPython Studio, F# CTP, Oslo and M CTP, Parallel Extension for .NET - I got the .NET 4.0 WCF / WF stuff from PDC (looked at in that VPC, don't even know if it's downloadable yet). I feel like I am 'losing it' on Silverlight 2.0, Silverlight toolkit, AJAX toolkit, AJAX futures - haven't looked at it since PDC. What am I missing?

How about you? What have you downloaded and installed into VS2008 that has delighted you?

The Art of Multiprocessor Programming

llangit — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:13:50 GMT

What are you reading these days? Here's what I am 'up to':

I am really enjoying this book, for it's balance of theory and practical application. Now, it does use Java for it's examples, although I generally code in C#, I find enough similarity between the two languages that the Java examples are still quite useful for me.

I do think we all need to start paying attention to this topic - to that end here are some links that you might find useful:

PLINQ webcast by Daniel Moth - http://www.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/nuggets/nugget/292/Parallel-LINQ-PLINQ.aspx

About PLINQ on MSDN Ch9 - http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Joe-Duffy-and-Igor-Ostrovsky-Parallel-LINQ-under-the-hood/

Anders and Joe Duffy on MSDN Ch9 - http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Programming-in-the-Age-of-Concurrency-Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Joe-Duffy-Concurrent-Programming-with/

Parallel Computing on MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/default.aspx

Order this book - Amazon.com: The Art of Multiprocessor Programming: Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit: Books

If you are attending PDC08, there are already 4 announced sessions on parallel computing: