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In this talk, I’ll introduce the Microsoft incubation project Casablanca, the aim of which is to help C++ developers productively take advantage of cloud-based computing without sacrificing performance. Through a series of …
We are familiar with at least some of the GoF patterns like Visitor or Factory. Less known are some very powerful abstract patterns used primarily in functional languages. I will show you how …
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read moreLKRhash is a hashtable that scales to multiple processors and millions of items. LKRhash was invented at Microsoft in 1997 by Paul Larson, Murali Krishnan, and George Reilly, and has been used in …
Come at 6:45 for pizza sponsored by Randstad Technologies.
Microsoft’s C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a C++ programming model and language extension that allows any C++ developer to take advantage of the massive parallelism available in today’s GPU’s. It offers a developer-friendly, lightweight, and …
Many developers have been suddenly thrown into developing code in stages whereas they used to be able to do bigger designs up front. Many people tell them to do test-driven development and emergent design while ignoring the fact that their work with legacy systems may prevent such actions. In …
Please join us at 6:45 for pizza sponsored by Summit Group Solutions.
Implementing code that is fast in a multi-core environment is one of the challenges of modern software engineering.
To meet this challenge, future Automatic Differentiation (AD) software will have to avoid excessive synchronization barriers between threads …
Come at 6:30pm for pizza supplied by Amazon Digital.
We’ll do a lap around the most commonly applicable parallel patterns. The goal of the talk is to map each of these parallel patterns to equivalent C++ code, while taking advantage of the modern constructs in the language …
Come at 6:30pm for pizza supplied by Microsoft Server and Tools.
In this talk, I will …
January 19th, 2011 — Determinism and Fail-Stop Races for Sane Multiprocessing — Luis Ceze
February 16th, 2011 — The Thought Process of Patterns: Essential Design Skills — Alan Shalloway
March 16th, 2011 — Debuggers and Mago — Aldo Nunez
April 20th, 2011: ‘C’ for Microcontrollers, Just Being Efficient — Lloyd Moore
May 18th, 2011 — C++0x Lambda …
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