Entries tagged with 64-bit - Channel 9

ARCast.TV - Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions

Bob Familiar — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Dr. Zhiming Xue interviews Steve Michelotti, senior solution architect at e.magination. Steve discusses what his team had to do to build a highly available 64-bit based web solution that supports a demanding service level agreement (SLA): more than 3 billion daily transactions, 99.99% of all transactions under 250 ms response time. One particular challenge they faced was dealing with the garbage collection (GC) process that is normally managed by the CLR of the .NET framework. With potentially millions of .NET objects in memory, a generation 2 GC can take 5 to 8 seconds on a 64-bit server with 16 GB memory, which quickly breaks the SLA. At their first attempt Steve and his team tried to reduce the frequency of GC occurrence. They applied several techniques such as delta refresh, minimization of boxing and un-boxing, use of object pooling, optimization of the large object heap, and an implementation of flow control between the web tier and the application tier. To ultimately address the challenge, they worked closely with the Premier Field Engineer team and the CLR team at Microsoft, which introduced a new feature called GC notification. With the new feature, which will be released in a future .NET service pack, they were able to deterministically take off a server from servicing any web request when a GC was pending on the server and put it back to service rotation when ready

New OGF Web Service Interface with Windows HPC Server 2008

Phil Pennington — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:29:19 GMT

Steven is a member of the Windows HPC Server 2008 product team responsible for design and development of the new Open Grid Forum compatible Web Service interface. This new interface enables client HPC applications to interact with the compute cluster job scheduler in a vendor-neutral manner.

Learn more about this and other new features via the community website at http://WindowsHPC.net.

The video is a bit long for Channel9 (~30 min). You may wish to download the entire WMV file, open it via the Windows Media Player, and select the fast play speed option, "Ctrl+Shift+G".

New Job Scheduler Features with Windows HPC Server 2008

Phil Pennington — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:14:40 GMT

Josh is a PM on the HPC Server 2008 product team. Listen to Josh detail the new Job Scheduler policies, algorithms, and interfaces.

Windows HPC Server 2008 is available in a Beta1 release as of November, 2007. Obtain the beta bits at http://connect.microsoft.com. Please provide feedback using the feedback tool on the Connect web site.

For additional information, see http://WindowsHPC.net and http://blogs.msdn.com/philpenn.

New performance enhancements for MPI applications running on HPC Server 2008

Phil Pennington — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:11:11 GMT

Eric is a member of the HPC Server product team. Listen to Eric describe the new Network Direct RDMA interface and related performance observations. Microsoft's MPI library is the first user-mode application that is also Network Direct aware. Resultant benefits include very low latency metrics.

Learn more at http://blogs.msdn.com/philpenn and http://WindowsHPC.net.

Cakewalk: Making Music with Sonar

Charles — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:47:51 GMT

The guys at Cakewalk are passionate about music and providing the technology that enables audio enthusiasts & professionals to create great music. Noel Borthwick, Cakewalk CTO and Carl Jacobson, Woldwide Marketing Director, spend some time with Inside Out talking about their lessons learned as an early Vista adopter for their audio application Sonar, which also is the only application of its kind for the 64-bit platform.

They also talk candidly about the development process and experiences with managed code, certification documentation and virtualization.

TechNet Radio: Review of Server Management in Windows Server 2008

erickingfrog — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:03:58 GMT

Listen in as Andrew Mason, Principle Program Manager for Server Core, Jeffrey Snover, Architect for PowerShell and Eduardo Melo, Program Manager for Server Manager discuss the role of Server Management in Windows Server 2008. Each will discuss briefly some of the new features of Server Core, PowerShell and Server Manager.

We also talk with Jeff Woolsey about the latest updates in Virtualization.
Participants

Eric Ostrowski – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Jeff Woolsey – Senior Program Manager, Virtualization

Andrew Mason – Principle Program Manager for Server Core

Jeffrey Snover – Architect for PowerShell

Eduardo Melo – Program Manager for Server Manager

TechNet Radio - What does MVP and Author, Charlie Russel, have to say about Windows Vista?

auroraqueen — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:54:30 GMT

In this episode Michael Murphy speaks with MVP and Expert Zone Columnist, Charlie Russel, about what Charlie thinks of Windows Vista. They talk about Charlie’s involvement in the Vista beta process, 64-bit, and new security enhancements in Windows Vista.

Participants:

Aurora Queen – Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Michael Murphy – IT Pro Evangelist

Charlie Russel – Expert Zone columnist Charlie Russel is currently an information technology consultant, having years of system administration experience with a specialty in combined Windows and UNIX networks. Charlie is the author of several books for IT professionals, including co-authoring the following Microsoft Press titles: Running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, and the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion.

TechNet Radio - What do the Scripting Guys really do?

auroraqueen — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:23:29 GMT

As we close out our Scripting month we thought it only appropriate to bring back everyone’s favorites, the Scripting Guys. Hear what they are up to these days. Kevin Remde speaks with them about such topics as PowerShell, VBScript, Compute Cluster Server, Windows Remote Management and Headless Servers.

Participants:

Charlie Harger – Your show host
Kevin Remde – IT Pro Evangelist
The Scripting Guys
Aurora Queen – TechNet Radio Producer and Event Reporter

IT Heroes Episode XIV: Exchange GM discusses the move to 64x Only in Exchange 12

mjmurphy — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:56:39 GMT

Interview With Exchange GM, Terry Myerson

I am really psyched about this interview. Mr. Myerson took time out of his very busy schedule to sit down and speak with me about the next evolution in Exchange Server--Exchange 12--due out before the end of the calendar year.

We spoke at length about the benefits our Exchange customers will derive from the 64 bit only implementation in Exchange 12, as well as Microsoft's strategic thinking around a 64 bit only version of the mail server. Terry also gave us a sneak peek into feature sets and what you can expect from Exchange 12.

We had a great conversation, hear it from the source! Originally posted to the Exchange team blog . http://blogs.technet.com/exchange [6]

Kang Su Gatlin - On the 64-bit Whiteboard

The Channel 9 Team — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:45:51 GMT

Now we get into some 64-bit code on the whiteboard and learn some things you need to think about when you move to 64-bit systems. Kang Su Gatlin is a program manager on the Visual C++ team and recently spoke as part of the Route 64 Training Tour.

Route 64 - Kang Su Gatlin talks about 64-bit (Part II)

The Channel 9 Team — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:32:05 GMT

The conversation continues with Kang Su about 64-bit and what it means for developers.

Next week you'll hear more from the Route64 Training Tour and see some of the things you'll need to worry about as you change your apps from a 32-bit world to the 64-bit ones.

Oh, and you also meet Volker Will, Mr. 64-bit at Microsoft, who'll join the conversation. Volker and Kang Su also tell you the kind of end-user benefits that'll come when the world moves to 64-bit.

Route 64 - Kang Su Gatlin talks about 64-bit

The Channel 9 Team — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:28:23 GMT

Over the next few days we'll bring you video from the Route64 Training Tour when it visited Redmond.

In this first part, you meet Kang Su Gatlin (again, since he's been on Channel 9 before). Kang Su is program manager on the Visual C++ compiler team.

He knows 64-bit better than most other people because his team is building the compilers to take advantage of the new 64-bit processors that are now hitting the market.

Our tech guy, Charles Torre, gets into the 64-bit world with Kang Su.

Kang Su Gatlin - What about 64-bit?

The Channel 9 Team — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:12:47 GMT

Since Kang Su Gatlin is a program manager on Visual C++'s compiler team he has a unique viewpoint into the future of computing (the guy who develops the compiler knows what kinds of capabilities are coming). Here we asked him "what about 64-bit?"