Talks

MVP Summit presentation on async

Stephen Toub - MSFT February 20, 2013 Feb 20, 2013 02/20/13

Lucian Wischik and I presented an "async clinic" at the MVP Summit in Bellevue this week. The async/await keywords in C# and Visual Basic drastically simplify asynchronous programming, but that of course doesn't mean that using them is without any gotchas: the goal of the discussion was to highlight some of the key areas in ...

“The Zen of Async” at the MVP Summit 2012

Stephen Toub - MSFT March 3, 2012 Mar 3, 2012 03/3/12

Thanks to everyone who attended my "The Zen of Async" presentation on Thursday at the MVP Summit. As I've had several requests, here are the slides and code for the talk. Toub_MVPSummit2012_ZenOfAsync.zip...

Parallelism BUILD talks available on Channel9

Stephen Toub - MSFT September 18, 2011 Sep 18, 2011 09/18/11

Thanks to everyone who attended my two talks at BUILD this past week, and I hope you enjoyed the sessions! For those of you unable to attend in person, the recordings of the talks are now available on Channel9: There were hundreds of other sessions this week at BUILD, and you can find their videos here: https://channel9.msdn.com/...

Presentation on TPL Dataflow in financial applications

Stephen Toub - MSFT May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011 05/2/11

Matt Davey from Lab49 presented at the Waters North American Trading Architecture Summit April 2011 on using TPL Dataflow in trading solutions. You can see his slide deck at http://www.slideshare.net/mattdotdavey/waters-north-american-trading-architecture-summit-april-2011. It's awesome to see the technology being used effectively to ...

Upcoming NYC user group presentation on Parallel Programming

Stephen Toub - MSFT June 13, 2010 Jun 13, 2010 06/13/10

I'm going to be in Manhattan on June 29th, and while there I'll be presenting to a joint meeting of the NYC .NET Developer's Group and the New York ALT.NET Group on parallel programming with .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Details are available here, and I'll look forward to seeing you there!Thanks!Stephen...

Parallel Computing at TechEd North America 2010

Stephen Toub - MSFT June 6, 2010 Jun 6, 2010 06/6/10

Are you attending TechEd in New Orleans this week? If so, check out the multitude of parallel computing-related breakout sessions, including: The first two (DEV314 and DEV317) are being presented by Huseyin Yildiz, one of the primary developers on the Parallel Computing Platform team responsible for the Task Parallel ...

Parallel Computing Sessions at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch

Stephen Toub - MSFT April 15, 2010 Apr 15, 2010 04/15/10

Thanks to everyone who attended our three breakout sessions at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch and DevConnections conference this week in Las Vegas. Attached to this blog post are the slide decks that were presented at the talks. The code from the talks is available either as part of our Parallel Programming in .NET 4 samples ...

PDC09 Parallelism Session Videos Now Available

Stephen Toub - MSFT November 21, 2009 Nov 21, 2009 11/21/09

Attendees at PDC09 this past week were privy to quite a few sessions on parallel computing. Now that the videos of these sessions are online, you can view them as well from the comfort of your own home. Here are some of the key parallelism-related sessions from this past week:Overview Managed code in Visual Studio 2010...

Scaling out PLINQ: DryadLINQ at PDC09 and Supercomputing09

Stephen Toub - MSFT November 11, 2009 Nov 11, 2009 11/11/09

PLINQ enables developers to scale up computations in order to leverage the multiple cores available in modern hardware. For many problem domains, this is quite useful and sufficient. What happens, however, when a workload being processed is so big that even a manycore machine is insufficient to adequately handle the load? This can be the case ...

Attending PDC09? Meet with the Parallel Computing Platform team.

Stephen Toub - MSFT November 2, 2009 Nov 2, 2009 11/2/09

Are you attending PDC09? Want to meet with members of the Parallel Computing Platform team? See https://blogs.msdn.com/visualizeparallel/archive/2009/11/02/the-parallel-computing-platform-team-pcd-09.aspx for more details...

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