TexBlog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/feed.xml Steve Teixeira's Blog -- Thoughts on parallel computing, Microsoft, the industry, and life Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:33:33 GMT en-US hourly 1 Video interview with Bruno Boucard https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/video-interview-with-bruno-boucard Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:55:21 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2011/03/17/video-interview-with-bruno-boucard/ Bruno Boucard was recently town for the MVP Global Summit, and we had the opportunity to sit down in my office for a video interview that covered a wide range of Technical Computing topics. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4.

]]> Parallel Development Day Video Available https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/parallel-development-day-video-available Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:05:25 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2010/10/01/parallel-development-day-video-available/ I was in New York last week for the Week on Wall Street event, where we launched Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and discussed the role Microsoft Technical Computing is playing across client, cluster, and cloud.  On Thursday, Stevan Vidich, Greg Burgess, and I hosted a group of developers to talk about scalable parallel computing.  You can find a video of the event here.

]]> IDF parallel computing session video available https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/idf-parallel-computing-session-video-available Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:46:41 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2010/09/15/idf-parallel-computing-session-video-available/ This week, James Reinders and I collaborated on a joint Intel-Microsoft parallel computing session at Intel Developer Forum 2010 in San Francisco.  In this session we discussed the formidable combination of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Intel Parallel Studio 2011.  A video of our session is now available!

]]> TechEd Europe 2009 now videos available! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/teched-europe-2009-now-videos-available Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:38:14 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2010/06/17/teched-europe-2009-now-videos-available/ The TechEd Europe folks have made available all of the sessions from last year’s conference.  You’ll find my sessions here, including:

  • “Is the future of programming a parallel one?” (Panel session with Don Syme, Keith Yedlin, Tiberiu Covaci, and me)
  • “Parallel Computing for Managed Developers”
  • “Building High Performance Parallel Software”
]]> Meet me at the Parallel Computing Roundtable in CA on June 30 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/meet-me-at-the-parallel-computing-roundtable-in-ca-on-june-30 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:55:20 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2010/06/17/meet-me-at-the-parallel-computing-roundtable-in-ca-on-june-30/ I’ll be down at the Microsoft campus in my native Bay Area with James Reinders of Intel on June 30.  This is an opportunity to provide feedback directly to Microsoft and Intel on your parallel computing needs and hear about some of the challenges we see developers facing.  As of today, there is still some room available.  Register here.  See you there!

]]> Moth on parallel debugging https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/moth-on-parallel-debugging Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:48:07 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2009/11/13/moth-on-parallel-debugging/ great entry to his blog that provides one-stop-shopping for all things VS 2010 parallel debugger, including videos, samples, slides, etc.  It’s great to see how much content we’ve built up over the past few months.  I recommend you pay The Moth a visit to check it all out!]]> TechEd panel discussion video available https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/teched-panel-discussion-video-available Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:52:47 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2009/11/11/teched-panel-discussion-video-available/ Earlier this week, I sat down with Don Syme, Keith Yedlin, and our moderator, Tiberiu Covaci, for a panel discussion on the impact of parallelism on software developers.  Check out the video here.

]]> Meet me at TechEd Europe and SuperComputing09 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/meet-me-at-teched-europe-and-supercomputing09 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:36:58 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2009/11/02/meet-me-at-teched-europe-and-supercomputing09/ I’m about to embark on a 2-week road trip, speaking at TechEd Europe in Berlin next week and SuperComputing09 in Portland the week following.  If you’d like to get together to talk parallel programming, please let me know.  I’m particularly interesting in learning more from folks that are considering adoption of the new parallel computing functionality in Visual Studio 2010, developers targeting Windows HPC Server, and also those dabbling in GPGPU development.

In addition to speaking on our upcoming Visual Studio 2010 technologies, I’ll be spending a lot of time at the Ask-The-Experts pavilion at both conferences.  If you’re in the neighborhood, please drop in and say, “hi.”

]]> Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and new MSDN launch today! https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/visual-studio-2010-beta-2-and-new-msdn-launch-today Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:31:03 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2009/10/19/visual-studio-2010-beta-2-and-new-msdn-launch-today/ Visit the landing page for VS2010 and .NET 4.0 to learn more and to download the bits.  One of the most exciting aspects of this release is that the quality and completeness have met high enough standards that we have declared it “Go Live” quality, which means you can begin developing production applications with VS 2010 beta 2.

I’d love to hear your feedback on building parallel applications with this release, especially around the completeness of experience between the programming models (PPL, TPL, PLINQ), debugger, and profiler.

We’ve also launched a new MSDN online experience, which included updates to over 11k DevCenter pages across 37 worldwide locales! You might particularly appreciate the new MSDN Library, which includes new “Lightweight” and “Script Free” that enable you to dial your experience based on bandwidth and web browser type.

Enjoy!

]]> Parallel Computing in Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/texblog/parallel-computing-in-visual-studio-2010-beta-1 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:04:08 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/texblog/2009/06/22/parallel-computing-in-visual-studio-2010-beta-1/ Beta 1 has been available for a few weeks now, and I’ve been seeing a lot of encouraging customer pick-up and feedback.  If you haven’t had the opportunity to try it yet, I encourage you to head over to MSDN and download a copy.  Once you grab a copy, the VS Beta 1 or Parallel Computing forums are great places to ask questions.  You can also use the Connect site to submit bugs or other feedback directly to the product team.

If you’re looking for a few tips & tricks, I’ve gathered pointers to a few resources that might be of interest to you.  Let me start with some team members:

  • Daniel Moth is the Program Manager responsible for the parallel debugging features, and his blog is always informative and sometimes even entertaining.  :)
  • Hazim Shafi is the architect of the parallel performance analysis features and truly the horse’s mouth when it comes to that entire feature set.
  • The native concurrency team blog is chock full of pithy code snippets and discussion of the finer points of PPL and asynchronous agents.
  • Not to be outdone, the managed code concurrency team blog has been posting regularly on the details of TPL and PLINQ.
  • Feng Yuan is a principal developer on the parallel debugging features, and I’m glad to see he’s recently dusted off his blog!
  • Not strictly VS2010-related, but to get the scoop on one of the hottest incubation projects on the team, check out the Axum team’s blog.

Stretching out beyond our humble team here in Microsoft building 112, here are a few reviews and reactions from the community that might be of interest:

Have you checked out VS 2010’s parallel computing features yet? If so, I’d love to hear what you think.

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