On Wednesday the 18th of August at 7pm, in Trinity Capital Hotel Jérémie Laval , who I think works on Mono, will be presenting to us a talk on Parallel FX
Please register.
Abstract:
Multicore computer are now part of our everyday life. Most desktop and laptop machines out there bundle a dual-core processor, quad-core processor or even 8-cores processor by default. This multiplication of the number of core on the same chip is destined to become the way for microprocessor manufacturers to remain competitive.
However, developers were a bit left out in this process, having written sequential programs for ages whereas they were now required to change their mindset and parallelize their program to keep them efficient across new processor revisions which isn’t an easy step to take.
That’s why we now see the creation of framework designed to help programmers to take advantage of this new kind of processor architecture by hiding away the parallelization challenge under easier primitives that they are used to. ParallelFx is one of such framework for the Mono and .NET world. By providing several new parallel constructs and concurrent data structures, it allows Mono applications to enter painlessly in this new multicore era.
This talk will cover several points :
- An introduction to what Mono is
- What the multicore revolution is all about
- How ParallelFx addresses these new challenges
- Opening to future perspective like GPGPU
