TechEd: Smoke demo – Vista vs Windows 7

Posted on 16/11/2009 by softtalkblog

One of several great demos at the Intel booth at Microsoft TechEd was run by senior application engineer, Rami Radi. Radi’s demo runs a version of its open source ‘Smoke’ framework, based on Threading Building Blocks, called ‘horsepower’ on two machines. This demo shows upto 900 horses running together across a plain – an intensive process [...]

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TechEd: Parallel programming tips

Posted on 13/11/2009 by softtalkblog

As well as lectures and technical sessions at Microsoft TechEd, there were many opportunities for developers to discuss specific issues with leading minds from Microsoft and their partners. Developer and trainer Tiberiu Covaci held an interactive discussion on the ‘Future of Parallel Programming,’ giving multicore developers the opportunity to discuss their own problems with threading, [...]

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TechEd: The inside track on Nehalem-EX

Posted on 12/11/2009 by softtalkblog

I asked Intel engineer Rob Kypriotakis why there was such a buzz at TechEd about Intel’s forthcoming Nehalem-EX platform. In this video, Rob explains what the technology is and how it will revolutionise the server environment.

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