The .NET CLR Team Tour, Part III

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Nov 19th, 2004 @ 12:57 PM | 38,672 Views | 9 Comments
Hear the roar!

Oh, that's just the CLR team's lab where they are testing 64-bit versions of the .NET common language runtime. But, first, we drop into Adam Nathan's office where he shows us the pinvoke.net Web site. That concludes our tour of the CLR team, but next week we'll sit down with Jason Zander for an interview about what the CLR team is doing. CLR, by the way, stands for Common Language Runtime.
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#Nov 19th, 2004 @ 1:59 PM
JasonZ
JasonZ
That was Scott Wadsworth, SDE/T lead for the JIT/GC/Port team, giving the tour of the lab on the 3rd floor.  It's a pretty impressive setup.

You should also check out Adam's blog.  In addition to good information on pinvoke.net, he has a lot of good data on MDA's.
#Nov 19th, 2004 @ 5:06 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
Who said the CLR was a compiler?

EDIT; Ah. That's stated in the description of the clip. You've got to forgive Scoble. He's not a technical guy Smiley I'll edit it.
#Nov 19th, 2004 @ 6:27 PM
scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy
Yeah, my bad. Hey, not too shabby to have Larry to clean up my messes, though!
#Nov 19th, 2004 @ 9:17 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

huh.  Can't believe all those standup pcs.  Would think nothing but 1Us-2Us rack mounts to keep things simple and tight.  I loved how the guy at the end says that is it and walks away.  Gotta do the next build... Smiley

#Nov 20th, 2004 @ 7:29 AM
LarryOsterman
LarryOsterman

Edit: Never mind, it's been fixed

#Nov 20th, 2004 @ 9:18 AM
JasonZ
JasonZ
staceyw wrote:

huh.  Can't believe all those standup pcs.  Would think nothing but 1Us-2Us rack mounts to keep things simple and tight.



There are typically two sources of tower machines in the lab.  The first is new prototype hardware from the vendor where they haven't actually made 1Us-2Us yet (some of the hardware in the lab hasn't hit the street yet).  The second is older models that have outgrown their usefulness as development machines and come out from under the desk and into the lab.  We keep them in the lab to increase our machine mix.  We typically find bugs in instruction scheduling, chip errata, and (since the machines often have less RAM) memory utilization.  Any time we trully recycle old machines, they are replaced with rack mounts.


staceyw wrote:


I loved how the guy at the end says that is it and walks away.  Gotta do the next build... Smiley



We'll have to introduce Alain Rait next time (the Test Lead who owns our BVT lab.  He's a former drill sergeant (no kidding) who keeps our machine utilization up to around 85% across the board.  No slacking <g>

#Nov 23rd, 2004 @ 5:50 AM
rdecarlo73
rdecarlo73
rdecarlo73
Total sidebar here... but it's the Egg Nebula.
#Nov 23rd, 2004 @ 12:12 PM
rhm
rhm
I like the way the camera picked up the speach just fine in the machine room, but out in the corridor afterwards I had to turn up the volume to hear the guy!
#Apr 4th, 2005 @ 11:34 PM
The Dealman
The Dealman
I am The DealMan
what model our those hp servers?

time mark in video 04:41
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