Entries tagged with george chrysanthakopoulos - Channel 9

Expert to Expert: Meijer and Chrysanthakopoulos - Concurrency, Coordination and the CCR

Charles — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:56:00 GMT

In this episode of Expert to Expert, programming language designer Erik Meijer chats with CCR creator George Chrysanthakopoulos. We've spent a good deal of time on Channel 9 addressing the Concurrency Problem and the various approaches Microsoft is taking in an effort to help solve it. George's CCR is a piece of managed technology (.NET) that provides an unusually high degree of concurrency for developers targeting Windows. The Coordination and Concurrency Runtime has been around for about five years. How are people using it today to build scalable concurrent systems? What's the current state of the CCR and what's it's future? Why is the CCR a better approach to scalable distributed concurrent programming than other technologies out there? Is concurrency the real issue? George believes that it's all about coordination(the other C in CCR) and concurrency is really just a side effect of coordinating systems. If you get distributed coordination right, then you have a concurrent system that can scale. Really? Do explain, dear George (oh, and he does and as passionately as you'd expect from him). This is a fantastic conversation. Classic Channel 9.

Enjoy!

George Chrysanthakopoulos: Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:37:00 GMT

The great George Chrysanthakopoulos (CCR creator) chats with us briefly about the new CCR and DSS Visual Toolkit. You first learned about CCR right here on Channel 9. Since that time it's had a very interesting evolution. The CCR found itslef at the core of the Microsoft Robotics engine on the one hand and running in the cloud on 50,000 servers processing billions of transactions. George and team have always been impressed with how people have used the CCR (many folks have downloaded the Microsoft Robotics SDK for the express purpose of getting at the CCR). Well, now you gaet the stand-alone CCR plus DSS in a neat application development package including Visual Programming Language.

Get the bits and more info at the links below:

To learn more about Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/ccrdss

CCR DSS Tyco Case Study (video): http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130996

CCR DSS Siemens Case Study (written): http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130997

CCR DSS Siemens Case Study (video): http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=130998

CCR DSS Toolkit 2008 datasheet: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=130994

George's PDC Session:
http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL55/