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Comment on Join Intel for a free developer event at Mobile World Congress by Take part in free developer sessions at Mobile World Congress « SoftTalk – multicore and parallel programming

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:55:15 +0000

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Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:03:30 +0000

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Comment on Take a tour of four parallel programming tools by las artes

las artes — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:20:42 +0000

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Comment on Microsoft adds game-style achievements to Visual Studio by softtalkblog

softtalkblog — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:28:54 +0000

Thanks for your comment. Yes, I don’t think it will persuade people to adopt a particular development platform, but it’s neat for those who already use it. Did you have any ideas for other things they could give out achievements for?

Comment on Microsoft adds game-style achievements to Visual Studio by Xander314

Xander314 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:01:28 +0000

Sounds like fun; not quite enough to make me come back to VS though! Maybe someone will make a Code::Blocks plugin to do the same in the end.

Comment on New research shows 66% of software engineers don’t use a thread checker by softtalkblog

softtalkblog — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:04:14 +0000

Yes, Helgrind is one of the ones that people said they were using, as detailed above. It sounds like you’re a fan. What’s your experience of it been? What would you say are its strengths?

Comment on New research shows 66% of software engineers don’t use a thread checker by Gregory

Gregory — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:43:26 +0000

Don’t forget Valgrind’s Helgrind tool.

Comment on Take a peek inside Google’s parallel architecture by softtalkblog

softtalkblog — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:43:00 +0000

Hi Eric. Thanks for your comment. Yes, that’s an interesting point. When the I/O is the real bottleneck (as it very often is), then the optimal processor speed is purely theoretical. I imagine Google’s got some quite innovative stuff going on with I/O too, though, so they’re able to get as close to the processor’s peak performance as possible.

Comment on Take a peek inside Google’s parallel architecture by Eric Verhulst

Eric Verhulst — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:41:04 +0000

A crucial ratio in parallel computing is the computation to communication ratio. If the application is compute intensive, then a crappy I/O (communication) architecture will do. Otherwise, the cores will be waiting for data. Don’t forget that external DRAM has 100′s of wait states and disks even more. So, it’s not just a matter of which cores but also of I/O latency and bandwidth. High speed processors often only deliver a high peak performance, not average performance. Two slower processors can be better than one very fast if the I/O architecture is in balance.

Comment on Amdahl’s law: doing the maths by Take a peek inside Google’s parallel architecture « SoftTalk – multicore and parallel programming

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:34:32 +0000

[...] snag when it turns out applications cannot be parallelised enough. I’ve written previously about Amdahl’s Law, and that rears its head once more [...]