Comment Feed for gclassy http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png gclassy en Tue, 21 May 2013 18:21:23 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 18:21:23 GMT Rev9 Re: 3-min. Quickie: Compiling C++ Projects using only the Windows SDK and the Command Prompt @John "Any process that includes running an installer has already failed.  Tools that depend on registry keys (e.g. COM objects), or files installed at fixed locations (e.g. GAC, WinSxS, %SystemRoot%\system32, %ProgramFiles%\msbuild, etc.), are fundementally incompatible with reliable build automation."  

You make a really good point, it would be very awesome to see improvements in our build tool chain that help with automation and allow you to repeatably and reliably store the build tools alongside your sources without requiring installers. Next time I bump into someone from DevDiv, I'll bring it up and see what they think. I'm guessing there's a better solution I haven't heard of Smiley

Thanks for your comments!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/3-min-Quickie-Compiling-C-Projects-using-only-the-Windows-SDK-and-the-Command-Prompt#c634322152180000000 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:46:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/3-min-Quickie-Compiling-C-Projects-using-only-the-Windows-SDK-and-the-Command-Prompt#c634322152180000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Expert Roundtable Discussion You can grab some of the demos from the NVIDIA DirectCompute sample page: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/directcompute/sdk/website/samples.html

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Expert-Roundtable-Discussion#c634161307960000000 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:53:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Expert-Roundtable-Discussion#c634161307960000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Lecture Series 210: GPU Optimizations and Performance The relevant links should be in the description to the right of the video (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=DirectComputeLecture&DownloadId=12929) is the link to the slide deck.  The code that he uses is similar to that included in the DirectCompute Hands on Lab (HOL) which is also linked in the description. Hope that helps!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-210-GPU-Optimizations-and-Performance#c634145534050000000 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:43:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-210-GPU-Optimizations-and-Performance#c634145534050000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Lecture Series 250: Integration with the Graphics Pipeline I'll see if I can get the source code for demos used in the lectures posted to the code gallery site.

 

(update)

These demos are available from NVIDIA's DirectCompute SDK Code Samples Site:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/directcompute/sdk/website/samples.html

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-250-Integration-with-the-Graphics-Pipeline#c634141495140000000 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:31:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-250-Integration-with-the-Graphics-Pipeline#c634141495140000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Expert Roundtable Discussion I didn't think it seemed awkward that representatives were there from both Nvidia and ATi - as Eric Young from NVIDIA pointed out, each H/W provider has strenghts and weaknesses but both are very powerful for GPGPU applications.  As far as guidance that we have on OpenCL vs DirectCompute, I will see if I can get any insights for you and it would be interesting to hear what the panelists would say so we'll try and get them to come into the forum.  I would imagine that they would chime in that the quality checks (hardware logo and certification, for example), Microsoft tooling and documentation, and support assurance from Microsoft for DirectX and DirectCompute are pretty nice to have for DirectCompute developers. Granted, the series probably doesn't address this because it may just be a matter of preference or religion such as the debate between whether someone should use Vim, Emacs, or Notepad.

 

Short update here including some discussion internally DirectCompute enables:

  • Compatibility guarantees - any DX11 card has guaranteed feature support for DirectCompute and CS5.0
  • Designed with graphics in mind – often you want to display what you calculate, and D3D+DCompute provides a more tightly knit API to do this than any other, including OpenCL+OpenGL.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Expert-Roundtable-Discussion#c634141476370000000 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:00:37 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Expert-Roundtable-Discussion#c634141476370000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Lecture Series 120: Basics of DirectCompute Application Development Thanks Duncan, @aL_ these should now appear in videos.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-120-Basics-of-DirectCompute-Application-Development#c634134520850000000 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:48:05 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-120-Basics-of-DirectCompute-Application-Development#c634134520850000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Lecture Series 120: Basics of DirectCompute Application Development Yup, a little more complicated than that.  But I'm learning Big Smile

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-120-Basics-of-DirectCompute-Application-Development#c634134426570000000 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:10:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-120-Basics-of-DirectCompute-Application-Development#c634134426570000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Lecture Series 120: Basics of DirectCompute Application Development I'm working with Channel 9 to get this included in the feeds, there have been some policy changes on Ch9 recently that affected this.  I think we'll have it fixed next week.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-120-Basics-of-DirectCompute-Application-Development#c634134412550000000 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:47:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-120-Basics-of-DirectCompute-Application-Development#c634134412550000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Lecture Series 110: Memory Patterns Bummer, I will see what I can do to look into this.  Also, we'll be looking into creating other higher fidelity versions that run in a special interface - there are publishing challenges to that so it might take a little while longer.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-110-Memory-Patterns#c634133425450000000 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:22:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-110-Memory-Patterns#c634133425450000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Expert Roundtable Discussion Brahma looks pretty interesting, I can't tell from the site how mature the code base is, but for managed devs this could be exciting and useful.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Expert-Roundtable-Discussion#c634129102150000000 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:16:55 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Expert-Roundtable-Discussion#c634129102150000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Lecture Series 101: Introduction to DirectCompute aL_  I'm working on making this visible on the front page, hopefully the next couple of posts for this series will be visible there.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-101-Introduction-to-DirectCompute#c634127359610000000 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:52:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Lecture-Series-101-Introduction-to-DirectCompute#c634127359610000000 gclassy Re: DirectCompute Expert Roundtable Discussion Glad you like it, keep an eye on this Channel 9 blog for the next post in the series coming on Friday!

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Expert-Roundtable-Discussion#c634123944120000000 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:00:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/gclassy/DirectCompute-Expert-Roundtable-Discussion#c634123944120000000 gclassy