Posted in Concurrency, Talks & Events on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned yesterday that I’ll be involved in two sessions at PDC09, including a parallel patterns tutorial. I know many of you are interested in concurrency in general and on Microsoft platforms in particular, so I thought I’d share this more complete list of concurrency-related sessions at PDC, put together by my colleague Stephen Toub.
Overview:
The [...]
Posted in Concurrency, Talks & Events on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you coming to PDC’09 in Los Angeles a couple of weeks from now, I’ll be there for a few hours on Monday and Wednesday participating in two events:
Patterns of Parallel Programming: A Tutorial on Fundamental Patterns and Practices for Parallelism. The full-day tutorial is full of useful information. I’ll be giving the [...]
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on October 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’ve opened up a short concurrency poll to get a sense of what concurrency issues are top-of-mind for programmers, and I’d appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to participate. Some questions are about what you want to learn more about, others about your tools of choice in specific areas, and a few [...]
Posted in Concurrency, Opinion & Editorial on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Astute readers may have noticed that Terry Crowley’s name frequently crops up in the Acknowledgments section of my Effective Concurrency columns. Who is Terry? To answer, Mary-Jo Foley profiles him this week.
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Software Development on October 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Avoid Exposing Concurrency – Hide It Inside Synchronous Methods, is now live on DDJ’s website.
From the article:
You have a mass of existing code and want to add concurrency. Where do you start?
Let’s say you need to migrate existing code to take advantage of concurrent execution or scale on parallel hardware. [...]
Posted in Concurrency on September 28, 2009 | 14 Comments »
“What’s the best way to process a pool of work?” is a recurring question. As usual, the answer is “it depends” because the optimal answer often depends on both the characteristics of the work itself and the constraints imposed by run-time system resources.
For example, I recently received the following email from reader Sören Meyer-Eppler, where [...]
Posted in Concurrency, Hardware, Opinion & Editorial, Software Development on August 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Design for Manycore Systems, is now live on DDJ’s website.
From the article:
Why worry about “manycore” today?
Dual- and quad-core computers are obviously here to stay for mainstream desktops and notebooks. But do we really need to think about "many-core" systems if we’re building a typical mainstream application right now? I find [...]
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on July 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, The Power of “In Progress”, is now live on DDJ’s website.
From the article:
Don’t let a long-running operation take hostages. When some work that takes a long time to complete holds exclusive access to one or more popular shared resources, such as a thread or a mutex that controls access to [...]
Posted in C++, Concurrency on June 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Someone emailed me today asking:
I’m writing because I’m somewhat conscious of what I would consider a rather large hole in the parallel programming literature.
… What if one or more of your tasks throws an exception? Should the thread that runs the task swallow it? Should the caught exceptions get stashed somewhere so that the "parent" [...]
Posted in Concurrency on June 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Break Up and Interleave Work to Keep Threads Responsive”, is now live on DDJ’s website.
Sorry for the long title; suggestions welcome. I always try to word the title to make it (a) short, (b) active, and (c) advice, but sometimes I’ll settle for two of those, or just one, until [...]
