Dan Reed: On the ManyCore Future and Parallelism in the Sky

The Discussion

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  awesome video!
  

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  Minh wrote:

  awesome video!
  

  
  
  Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
  C

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  Great Video !
  
  not just welcome to microsoft (for us non MS employees).
  
  Welcome to channel 9 !
  
  
  

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  What is this dry-ah thing? Or at the very least, how do you spell it?

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  JoshRoss wrote:

  What is this dry-ah thing? Or at the very least, how do you spell it?

  
  
  "Dryad is an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs. A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of them with multiple processors or cores, without knowing anything about concurrent programming."

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  Charles wrote:

  

  JoshRoss wrote: What is this dry-ah thing? Or at the very least, how do you spell it?

  
  
  "Dryad is an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs. A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of them with multiple processors or cores, without knowing anything about concurrent programming."

  
  
  Andrew Birrell is involved in that project - it must be good.  He also has an Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME) project for alternative to explicit locks that looks interesting.

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  staceyw wrote:

  

  Charles wrote:  JoshRoss wrote: What is this dry-ah thing? Or at the very least, how do you spell it? "Dryad is an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs. A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of them with multiple processors or cores, without knowing anything about concurrent programming."

  
  
  Andrew Birrell is involved in that project - it must be good.  He also has an Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME) project for alternative to explicit locks that looks interesting.

  
  
  I sense a Going Deep with Andrew in future...
  
  
  C

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  Charles wrote:

  

  staceyw wrote:  Charles wrote:  JoshRoss wrote: What is this dry-ah thing? Or at the very least, how do you spell it? "Dryad is an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs. A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of them with multiple processors or cores, without knowing anything about concurrent programming." Andrew Birrell is involved in that project - it must be good.  He also has an Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME) project for alternative to explicit locks that looks interesting.

  
  
  I sense a Going Deep with Andrew in future...
  
  
  C

  
  
  That would be awesome Charles!!
  I have been big fan ever sense his "Programming Threads in C#" paper.  The first, and best, paper on managed threads and locks (granted I have not got Joe Duffy's book yet).
  
  Hmmm.  That gives me a crazy dream.  How about a panel talk on Concurrency futures with Joe Duffy, Andrew Birrell, Don Box, Dan Reed, and George Chrysanthakopoulos.  Don tossed in for salt
  
  

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  staceyw wrote:

  

  Charles wrote:  staceyw wrote:  Charles wrote:  JoshRoss wrote: What is this dry-ah thing? Or at the very least, how do you spell it? "Dryad is an infrastructure which allows a programmer to use the resources of a computer cluster or a data center for running data-parallel programs. A Dryad programmer can use thousands of machines, each of them with multiple processors or cores, without knowing anything about concurrent programming." Andrew Birrell is involved in that project - it must be good.  He also has an Automatic Mutual Exclusion (AME) project for alternative to explicit locks that looks interesting. I sense a Going Deep with Andrew in future... C

  
  
  That would be awesome Charles!!
  I have been big fan ever sense his "Programming Threads in C#" paper.  The first, and best, paper on managed threads and locks (granted I have not got Joe Duffy's book yet).
  
  Hmmm.  That gives me a crazy dream.  How about a panel talk on Concurrency futures with Joe Duffy, Andrew Birrell, Don Box, Dan Reed, and George Chrysanthakopoulos.  Don tossed in for salt
  
  

  
  
  Excellent idea. Let me if see if I can make this happen. I'd want to add Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer and Anders as well. And three cameras.
  
  Thank you for the suggestion. Let's make this happen.
  
  C

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  Charles wrote:

  

  
  
  Excellent idea. Let me if see if I can make this happen. I'd want to add Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer and Anders as well. And three cameras.
  
  Thank you for the suggestion. Let's make this happen.
  
  C

  
  
  Oops.  Forgot about Erik and Anders. Many apologies.  They are a must.  That would be so extreme - The Concurrency Dream Team (CDT).

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  Differentiating computing unit scale in new decade of Wintel?

  Microsoft has server specific core parallel computing. In other words, Microsoft is developing high scale computing area of mainframe computer architecture, with Intel. Mainframe computers have value differentiation of multi-processors management, and Microsoft has multi-cores management. System buyers may guess past long decade of large scale mainframe versus small scale personal computing.
  Innovative processors development is in different side of hardware business, and given development point is how intelligent software solution may add generic values to multi-processor units under Windows resource management. Let's evaluate how Windows became bigger beside mainframe computers.