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Parallel Programming Talk - Doug Holland & Unified Modeling Language
By Aaron Tersteeg (Intel) (120 posts) on October 21, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Doug Holland joined me today for Parallel Programing Talk. Doug is a .NET architect and software developer within Intel's Software and Services Group. He's also been recognized as a Intel Software Network Black Belt and Microsoft MVP. But before I recap our talk I have a few news items to share.
We released a new version of the Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 for both Windows and Linux that improves functionality and fixes a few bugs. Please download and let us know what you think.
The Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) is October 27-30th in Los Angeles, California. Intel will be presenting and is running a VTune content booth at the show. We produced an introduction to using VTune Video to give contestants a head start before the show. Check it out and good luck at the show.
Super Computing 2008 is November 17-21st in Austin, Texas. I'm looking forward to attending. Be sure to check out our Academic Curriculum Birds of a Feather talk on October 17th at 5:30PM. I am also planning to give a talk at the Intel Booth during the week. Be sure to stop by and say hi.
Doug and I talked about his experience writing 110 blog posts on software.intel.com. In his recent post on Model-Driven Architecture and Development he share his thoughts on model driven development. Doug sees UML as a catalyst for improving communication among the development team; including requirements, implementation, bringing new team members up to speeds. We discussed the opportunities to introduce parallelism into future revisions to the UML standard. Community response to the post included an interesting comment stating that we need to spend more time on the lower level software development skills. As code gets more and more complicated we need to abstract the concepts to allow improved developer productivity. There is still a lot of work to do to improve UML but we are climbing the abstraction layer whether we like it or not. I appreciated Doug sharing his insight and I look forward to your additional comments on his post.
Michael Wrinn is attending the Asia Academic Forum in Taipei and was unable to join me for today's show. He will REALLY be joining me on November 4th at 8:00AM PST to discuss teaching parallel programming at universities.
Categories: Parallel Programming
Comments (2)
| October 28, 2008 11:32 AM PDT
Aaron Tersteeg (Intel)
| I fixed the link to point to Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 for both Windows and Linux. Thanks for the catch. |
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