Entries tagged with parallel debugging - Channel 9

Parallel Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 - MSDN mag companion

Daniel Moth — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:37:00 GMT

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth

Introduction:
This screencasts covers the new Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks debugging windows in Visual Studio 2010.

It demonstrates the sample code from the MSDN Magazine on this topic which you can read here:
Debugging Task-Based Parallel Applications in Visual Studio 2010

Thread Blocking Analysis in the VS2010 Profiler

Phil Pennington — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:04:00 GMT

Join Bill Colburn once again as he demonstrates useful analysis techniques within the VS2010 Concurrency Visualizer. In this screencast, he demonstrates thread synchronization reports, unblocking stacks, and how to view crucial call sites. He also demonstrates how to get to the source code responsible for substantial thread blocking time.

Check-out the following additional resources:
- The Parallel Visualization Blog
- The MSDN Parallel Computing Dev-Center
- Visual Studio 2010 on Learning Center
- Parallel capabilities of the VS2010 profiler
- Download Visual Studio 2010 beta2
- Hazim Shafi’s Blog on Windows Parallel Performance Tools

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Concurrent Visualization Techniques in the VS2010 Profiler

Phil Pennington — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:34:00 GMT

Join Bill Colburn as he demonstrates useful features of the Concurrency Visualizer available in VS2010. He discusses visualization of parallel-for loops, I/O reports, sorting the display of threads, and viewing thread affinity.

Check-out the following additional resources:
- The Parallel Visualization Blog
- The MSDN Parallel Computing Dev-Center
- Visual Studio 2010 on Learning Center
- Download Visual Studio 2010 beta2
- Hazim Shafi’s Blog on Windows Parallel Performance Tools

See all videos in this series.

Thread Visualization in the VS2010 Profiler

Phil Pennington — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:12:00 GMT

Join James Rapp once again as he dives deeper into the new parallel performance analysis tools available in Visual Studio 2010. In this video, he discusses ways of managing the quantity of data presented by the profiler and how to obtain meaningful statistics about your parallel application.

Check-out the following additional resources:
- The Parallel Visualization Blog
- The MSDN Parallel Computing Dev-Center
- Visual Studio 2010 on Learning Center
- Download Visual Studio 2010 beta2
- Hazim Shafi’s Blog on Windows Parallel Performance Tools

VS2010 Parallel Computing Features Tour

Daniel Moth — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:00 GMT

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth

Introduction:

In Visual Studio 2010, the Parallel Computing team has delivered APIs and tools for developers wanting to build applications that take advantage of multiple cores. This video provides a glimpse on the managed APIs, debugging windows and profiler support.

For more on the managed APIs, please start on the team's blog. For more on profiler start on that team's blog. For more on Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks please start on my blog post on Parallel Debugging.

Parallel Tasks – new Visual Studio 2010 debugger window

Daniel Moth — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:29:00 GMT

UPDATED for the VS2010 Beta 2 release

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth

Introduction:

In the next version of .NET and C++ that ship with Visual Studio 2010, a new task-based programming model is introduced. In this short video you will learn about Parallel Tasks, a new debugger window that helps developers debug applications that use tasks. You will also get a glimpse at the task-specific features of the Parallel Stacks debugger window introduced in another video.

To read more about the features of the Parallel Tasks window please read my blog post here. To follow some steps and explore the Parallel Tasks (and Parallel Stacks) windows on your own Visual Studio 2010 follow this MSDN walkthrough.

Parallel Stacks – new Visual Studio 2010 debugger window

Daniel Moth — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:21:00 GMT

UPDATED for the VS2010 Beta 2 release

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth

Introduction:

As developers try to take advantage of more and more cores in their applications, ultimately more and more threads will execute their code at the same time. When debugging such applications, there is a need to visualize multiple call stacks of multiple threads in a single view. This scenario is supported in Visual Studio 2010 via a new debugger window that this short video explores: Parallel Stacks.

To read more about the features of the Parallel Stacks window please read my blog posts here, here and here. To follow some steps and explore the Parallel Stacks (and Parallel Tasks) windows on your own Visual Studio 2010 installation, follow this MSDN walkthrough.

SC08: Windows HPC: Parallel Debugging with Allinea DDT-Lite in Visual Studio 2008

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:34:00 GMT

SC08: Debugging Windows HPC MPI and threaded programs with Allinea's DDT-Lite add-in for Visual Studio.

Parallel Computing Platform: An Integrated Approach to Tooling

Charles — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:05:00 GMT

The Parallel Computing Platform team's Steve Teixeira (PUM), Daniel Moth (PM and Channel 9 Screencaster Extraordinaire!) and Sean Nordberg (GPM) sit down with me to discuss Microsoft's overall approach to Parallel Computing inside Visual Studio (improved concurrency debugging and new runtime analysis tools inside VS). Of course, we also address the high level issues of making parallel computing easier to compose on the Microsoft stack and peak into the future. At PDC Steve et al will go much deeper into the VS tooling support for parallel computing in several sessions. Parallel Computing is a major theme at this year's PDC so I strongly encourage you to head down to LA and pay close attention to our plans for making writing concurrent code reasonable and readily understandable by a much larger class of developers.

See you at PDC.