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Academia.NET
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We're working with Microsoft to develop several tutorials introducing developers to high-performance computing, parallel programming, and Windows HPC Server 2008. Our first tutorial (for experienced HPC developers, "Exploiting Data Parallelism...
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We're working with Microsoft to develop some tutorials for the HPC Server 2008 SDK. We just finished one of the tutorials, representing a classic HPC development scenario: “Exploiting Data Parallelism with OpenMP, MPI and Microsoft HPC Server 2008”...
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Microsoft has just released a CTP of its upcoming HPC Server 2008 product (the next version of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003). The MPI library has undergone a series of performance enhancements (e.g. Network Direct for more efficient message communication...
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During the first run of our Windows Compute Cluster Server class last week in Irvine, we discovered that when you install the SDK for Compute Cluster Pack, the wrong version of msmpe.lib is installed. In particular, the 64-bit msmpe.lib file, which gets...
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At Supercomputing last week, Microsoft announced the next version of its HPC product: HPC Server 2008. The current version (”Windows Compute Cluster Server” or WCCS) is built upon Server 2003, while this next version is built upon Server 2008...
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Michael Wolfe, PhD, is a well-known compiler writer and parallelization guru, and currently works for The Portland Group . He gave a vendor talk at Supercomputing this week (Reno, NV) on what he calls “Data Streaming”. He started by showing...
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My PhD is in parallelizing compilers, back in the 1990's when supercomputers were hot. Then the field cooled off, as the machines were too costly, the programming models were too difficult, and the auto-parallelizing compilers failed to live up to (unrealistic...
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I'm sure you've heard about LINQ, but just in case you haven't, it stands for Language Integrated Query. I just finished a 60-page overview of LINQ, which is available as a PDF from O'Reilly: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/language1/?CMP=ILC-2RQ886833906&ATT...
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For the academics in the crowd... I was under the impression that Microsoft's Academic Alliance was providing Visual Studio Team System as trial software that expires after 180 days. Turns out that if you contact MSDNAA, you can get a volume licensing...
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I've been a big fan of NDoc for generating professional looking documentation from XML comment files. Unfortunately, it seems development on NDoc has stalled of late, and support for generating documentation for .NET 2.0 code is still beta. The good news...
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Webcast listeners know I'm a big fan of Rocky's work on distributed design. He's designed a framework (CSLA) for distributed N-tier systems, and recently updated his framework for .NET 2.0. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak at TechEd or PDC,...
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During today's webcast on web services (Wed Feb 8), there was a question related to moving your web service from your dev box to the production box. When the web service moves, the URL will change, so what's the best way to protect your client code from...
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In my Oct 25, 2005 webcast --- “The Business Tier --- What, When and How” --- we touched upon the Object/Relational Mapping problem that occurs in most business apps. I mentioned a few ORM tools that help you solve the problem, but it's not...
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Thanks to Ben for asking the question: “Is 'Architecting' really a word?”. Turns out it isn't, duh! Luckily the series hasn't started yet, so I can still change the title: “The Architecture of Modern Desktop Apps”. I wonder if...
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I'm happy to be delivering another series this fall, “Architecting Modern Desktop Apps”, most Tuesdays starting august 23rd. Smart client, n-tier, distributed, multi-threaded, remoting, web services, etc. I even have a new plan to make sure...
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