Parallel Computing Videos
In my PDC Day 3 post I mentioned how impressed I was with the Parallel Computing session. Ryan, Richard, and I are still talking about some of the stuff we saw and learned in that session. Daniel was kind enough to mention in the comments that the video from his PDC talk is now online. If you weren’t able to attend PDC or you didn’t make it to the session this is a must see video!
I also noticed on Daniel’s blog that he posted links to a video of an interview he did about parallelism at Tech Ed EMEA . This interview is a nice compliment to the PDC session as it reiterates some of the important points of parallel computing such as what parallelism is (as opposed to just multi-threading) and why it’s so critical to understand how to leverage the power of multiple cores today given the prospect that 32+ core machines will be standard in the not too distant future.
It’s inevitable that parallelism will become a critical aspect of software development in the future and it’s nice to see Microsoft doing some great work in this area bringing such a vital (and complex) technology to the mainstream.
