Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/432317_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions The Parallel Computing Platform team's David Callahan (Distinguished Engineer) and Keith Yedlin (Product Unit Manager) sit down with me to discuss Microsoft's vision for general purpose Parallel Computing. Keith demos the power of the Microsoft Parallel Computing Platform on a 26 processor machine. Even cooler than the substantial performance improvements is the small change to a for loop (adding .NET Extensions' new Parallel.For) that results in incredible performance gains. See for yourself. Of course, this is Channel 9 (and I am without Marketing bones...) so we talk about a lot of things related to concurrency and parallel computing. Do we have all the answers? Of course not. Are we making significant strides in our quest to bring more super computing capability to the general purpose software developer. David is a seasoned veteran in the parallel computing space (he was an engineer at Cray...) and he owns the Microsoft "Quest" for parallel computing, generally. Keith has to make sure that we come up with is truly useful to customers and not just simplified rocket science.Tune in! en Fri, 24 May 2013 02:21:03 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 02:21:03 GMT Rev9 Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions

posted by figuerres

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595319690000000 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:59:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595319690000000 figuerres Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions
Since we keep hearing about how the teams working on parallelism are testing things out on massive many-core machines, can we have another video about the testing labs? There was a cool one back during the Vista beta cycle, and it would be neat to talk about what kind of massive hardware these frameworks are being tested against. It's nothing important, just a "cool factor" thing since a 26 core machine is way beyond the budget of most of us...combined. Smiley

posted by kettch

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595556210000000 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:33:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595556210000000 kettch Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions
Bah!

Parallelism is huge, huge, huge for us. We've fought so many times with locks and deadlock problems and throughput in our code; we want better parallelism abstractions. I'd say it's #1 or #2 on my wishlist for C# vNext.

Thanks for the interesting video!

posted by Judah

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595591290000000 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:32:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595591290000000 Judah Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595918520000000 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:37:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595918520000000 Charles Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions eight hundred) processors.. thats manycore right there Tongue Out and th X2 has 1600 processors..

the power of gpu:s is staggering, and microsoft has this secret awsome .net project that could harness that Smiley

posted by aL_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595950950000000 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:31:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595950950000000 aL_ Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions
but the accelerator guys did some gpu computing using dx9.. that stuff goes a long way Smiley anyhow, i've said it before but i'll say it again, pleease make some interviews with the accelerator team (or what ever they are called now) Smiley so what happend to the acelerator team? i heard them beeing mentioned in another video but finding anything out about them is really hard :/ gp-gpu computing is huuuuge and if you want many core... the ati 4700 has 800 (eight hundred) processors.. thats manycore right there Tongue Out and th X2 has 1600 processors..

the power of gpu:s is staggering, and microsoft has this secret awsome .net project that could harness that Smiley

posted by aL_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595965470000000 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:55:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595965470000000 aL_ Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions sorry for double posting (and posting weirdly) but the edit post function doesnt seem to work.. (tried ie8 and ff3 :/ )

posted by aL_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595967440000000 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:59:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633595967440000000 aL_ Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions
Truth is, Accelerator by now is far from being a potential concurrent for other GPGPU libraries such as CUDA.
Accelerator now just provides access to the ParallelArrays lib which just provide basic operations on arrays, and delayed computation. For basic operations it's great. But when you want to work on advanced GPGPU projects, it's not enough... You don't have enough control on what you're actually programming. While using Accelerator you actually have no idea of what's going on the GPU. I hope the next version will provide more low-level control.

posted by Buanderie

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633597297250000000 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:55:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633597297250000000 Buanderie Re: Parallel Computing Platform: Overview and Future Directions I really wish I could have a conversation with David Callahan to discuss my thoughts on how I want to disprove his findings at Cray concerning mainstream end consumer concurrency.  I respect him and I want to do my part by allowing us all to get past this concurrency problem though.  I'd really enjoy knowing what David Callahan's opinion about my relativistic computation idea, and tips on large scale implementation details that his experience is invaluable to have.

posted by HeavensRevenge

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633934381750000000 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:22:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Parallel-Computing-Platform-Overview-and-Future-Directions#c633934381750000000 HeavensRevenge