Stephen Toub – Parallel Computing Tour

I’m excited to tell you that I’m organizing another product team tour!  Stephen Toub from the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft will be touring through Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee in one week, speaking at corporations during the day and speaking at user groups in the evenings.  He will discuss concurrency and how .NET 4.0 simplifies parallel programming.  This is one of the things that I am seriously most excited about in .NET 4.0.  With Moore’s Law breaking down, software developers need to be able to master multithreading and know how to develop concurrent applications.  Historically, this has been very difficult.  It’s hard to understand concurrency issues, hard to write good code, and hard to debug when race conditions and such do happen.  With .NET 4.0, there are APIs and tools to make parallel programming much simpler.  This in turn can result in improved performance of your applications. 

Stephen will be speaking to the public in a number of venues.  Please register as directed below.  This is an amazing opportunity to learn about a cool new technology, directly from one of the people who built it.  In addition, it’s always nice to build relationships with people on the .NET Framework team. 

The official abstract and bio is below. 

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Date/time	Location	Registration
Mon 10/26, 9-11am	Microsoft office 2555 Meridian Blvd, Suite 300 Franklin, TN 37067	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032430034&Culture=en-US
Mon 10/26, 6:30-8:30pm	Microsofthttps:// 2555 Meridian Blvd, Suite 300 Franklin, TNhttps:///td>https://	https://nashparalleldotnet.eventbrite.com/
Tues 10/27, 6-8pm	University of Louisville Campus J.B. Speed Hall, Room 100 Map	No registration required.
Wed 10/28, 3-5pm	Microsoft office 4605 Duke Dr, Suite 800, Mason, OH 45040-9410	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032430039&Culture=en-US
Wed 10/28, 6-8pm	MAX Technical Training 4900 Parkway Dr, Suite 160 Mason, OH 45040 Map	https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=141786
Thurs 10/29, 9-11am	Microsoft office, Park Center III, Third Floor, 6050 Oak Tree Blvd S, Independence, OH 44131	https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032430040&Culture=en-US
Thurs 10/29, 6:30-8:30pm	Sogeti office at Beacon Place Conference Center 6055 Rockside Woods Blvd, lower level Independence, OH 44131	To register, please send an email to sam@clevelanddotnet.info with "RSVP" in the subject line.
Fri 10/30, 6-8pm	Microsoft office, Southfield Town Center, 1000 Town Center Dr., Suite 1930 Southfield, MI 48075	https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=142370

 

Parallel Computing with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4

With the .NET Framework today, correctly introducing concurrency and parallelism into libraries and applications is difficult, time consuming, and error-prone. However, as the hardware industry shifts towards multi-core and manycore processors, the key to high-performance applications is parallelism. The .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 offer solutions to help make coding, debugging, and profiling concurrent applications significantly easier. In this talk, we’ll examine Parallel LINQ-to-Objects (PLINQ), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), new coordination and synchronization types, and Visual Studio tooling support in order to provide a look at the next generation of parallel programming with .NET.

Stephen Toub is a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft, where he spends his days focusing on the next generation of programming models and runtimes for concurrency, parallelism, and asynchrony. Stephen is also a Contributing Editor for MSDN® Magazine, for which he writes the .NET Matters column, and he’s an avid speaker at conferences like PDC, TechEd, and DevConnections. Prior to working on the Parallel Computing Platform, Stephen designed and built enterprise applications for companies such as GE, McGraw-Hill, BankOne, and JetBlue. He was a developer for Microsoft Outlook as well as for the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerators.

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 16, 2009
  I'll definitely be attending the Southfield session. It's gonna be awesome

• Anonymous
  October 17, 2009
  hello; when the technical session tours will be back to North of Baltimore, Maryland area (we divide maryland into south of baltimore - to DC and north of baltimore is the forggoten land)

• Anonymous
  October 21, 2009
  hi, i would really love to view one of the presentations, will any go out live online or recordings be available later? thanks, ronan

• Anonymous
  November 11, 2009
  @Ronan - There are resources from Stephen's tour, including his slide deck and sample code, at http://blogs.msdn.com/jennifer/archive/2009/11/03/stephen-toub-tour-parallel-computing-resources.aspx.   @Mohsen - There may be additional technical tours in the March/April timeframe in certain cities.  Stay tuned!