Title: The Anatomy of Message Passing
Speaker: Bartosz Milewski
Date: May 19, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Place: Microsoft Eastside Campus, Bldg 41, Townsend (see our website
www.nwcpp.org for directions).

I wish it was announced more that half an hour ahead of time. I would have gone, but I just saw this.

On Wed, 19 May 2010 18:31:53 -0600, Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Title: The Anatomy of Message Passing
> Speaker: Bartosz Milewski
> Date: May 19, 2010
> Time: 7 pm
> Place: Microsoft Eastside Campus, Bldg 41, Townsend (see our website
> www.nwcpp.org for directions).


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On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:28:26 -0600, Phil Deets <pjdeets2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 18:31:53 -0600, Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> Title: The Anatomy of Message Passing
>> Speaker: Bartosz Milewski
>> Date: May 19, 2010
>> Time: 7 pm
>> Place: Microsoft Eastside Campus, Bldg 41, Townsend (see our website
>> www.nwcpp.org for directions).
>
> I wish it was announced more that half an hour ahead of time. I would have gone, but I just saw this.

I see there is a newsfeed on nwcpp.org which I've now subscribed to. I should be able to make it to future meetings as long as they are posted ahead of time to the feed.

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Phil Deets wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:28:26 -0600, Phil Deets <pjdeets2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 18:31:53 -0600, Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Title: The Anatomy of Message Passing
>>> Speaker: Bartosz Milewski
>>> Date: May 19, 2010
>>> Time: 7 pm
>>> Place: Microsoft Eastside Campus, Bldg 41, Townsend (see our website
>>> www.nwcpp.org for directions).
>>

see comment 12

http://reliablesoftware.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/real-life-multithreading/

Nick

Nick B wrote:
> Phil Deets wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:28:26 -0600, Phil Deets <pjdeets2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 18:31:53 -0600, Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Title: The Anatomy of Message Passing
>>>> Speaker: Bartosz Milewski
>>>> Date: May 19, 2010
>>>> Time: 7 pm
>>>> Place: Microsoft Eastside Campus, Bldg 41, Townsend (see our website
>>>> www.nwcpp.org for directions).
>>>
> 
> see comment 12
> 
> http://reliablesoftware.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/real-life-multithreading/
> 
> Nick

Here Bartosz has posted the video and notes from his talk.

http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/the-anatomy-of-message-passing/

happy reading.

Nick B

On Wed, 19 May 2010 21:48:48 -0700, Phil Deets <pjdeets2@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 2010 22:28:26 -0600, Phil Deets <pjdeets2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 18:31:53 -0600, Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Title: The Anatomy of Message Passing
>>> Speaker: Bartosz Milewski
>>> Date: May 19, 2010
>>> Time: 7 pm
>>> Place: Microsoft Eastside Campus, Bldg 41, Townsend (see our website
>>> www.nwcpp.org for directions).
>>
>> I wish it was announced more that half an hour ahead of time. I would have gone, but I just saw this.
>
> I see there is a newsfeed on nwcpp.org which I've now subscribed to. I should be able to make it to future meetings as long as they are posted ahead of time to the feed.
>

The website has a new post for a June meeting now, but there is no date or time posted. I e-mailed the contact e-mail address about this, but I got a delivery failure notification so the address must be out of date. Does anybody know when the June meeting is?

Thanks,
Phil Deets

Phil Deets wrote:
> The website has a new post for a June meeting now, but there is no date or time posted. I e-mailed the contact e-mail address about this, but I got a delivery failure notification so the address must be out of date. Does anybody know when the June meeting is?

Here's the announcement for the June meeting. I plan on attending, I think it'll be fun. Of course, it will be great to see there as many of our D community as can come! (Afterwards, we go out for a drink & some food at the local watering hole.)

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Next week Gavriel Plotke will be talking about the harnessing of the
power of the graphics chip as a massively parallel supercomputer that
sits, mostly idly (uless we play a lot of games, that is), inside most
computers.

Title: Massive Multithreading on the GPU. GigaFlops or...  TeraFlops?

Speaker: Gavriel Plotke, Microsoft Senior SDET

Date: Wednesday, June 16the

Place: Microsoft Eastside Campus, Bldg 41, Townsend (see our website
www.nwcpp.org for directions).

Abstract:

The modern GPU is a massively parallel supercomputer that has 2 orders
of magnitude more processing power then a single CPU Core. But the
threading model is very different than the CPU. Don't get left behind
on knowing about this different paradigm.

Bio:
I've been with Microsoft for 3 years on the DirectX High Level Shader
Language compiler test team. I've been a champion of the new Compute
Shader features of DirectX11. While I have some graphics background,
it was my assembler language and compiler writing background that got
me the job.  Early in my career I worked on the internals of a
mainframe spreadsheet product as a competitor to VisiCalc and
Lotus123.  It was a time when everyone in a big office would have a
mainframe terminal and no one had a PC.  It was a great product, but
time moved on, and Excel on inexpensive PCs ate our lunch. After that
I spent a many years doing business contract work - different
projects, different platforms, lots of database design.  Now I help
support programming on today's supercomputer, the modern graphics
card.