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Microsoft releases Dryad concurrent-programming code to academics

Microsoft releases Dryad concurrent-programming code to academicspowerpointGood presentation. Good ideas in there.RE: Microsoft releases Dryad concurrent-programming code to academics* the slide which is grayed out is because of animation; you can see all parts of the software stack if you play the powerpoint presentation* Dryad has been the runtime...

Tags: Financial Planning, Dryad, academics, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts

In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports. EETimes says the Wintel couple will announce it is helping fund the new Parallel Computing Lab at...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Intel Corp., EETimes, Microsoft Research Folk, Dryad, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Build your own 3-D virtual trees

There are not many 3-D objects in virtual worlds such as Second Life. And the reason is very simple. 3-D objects are quite difficult to build by average computer users, who often don't have an artistic background. This is why computer scientists at Stanford University have decided to give us...

Tags: 3D, Tree, Vladlen Koltun, Dryad, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-10

Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs From Sequential Building Blocks

Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational "Vertices" with communication "Channels" to form a dataflow graph. Dryad runs the application by executing the vertices of this graph on a set of available computers, communicating as appropriate through files, TCP pipes, and...

Tags: Graph, Association For Computing Machinery, Computer, Dryad, Concurrency, Productivity, Tcp/Ip, Networking

White papers 2007-03-23

MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computing

At this week’s open house for press and analysts, Microsoft Research MSR will be showing off a multitude of projects, including a so far little-publicized distributed-computing platform under development that is code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is one of a number of large-scale-computing efforts in which Microsoft researchers are engaged....

Tags: Dryad team, Dryad, Dryad Web site

Blog posts 2006-09-26

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News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Wireless, Brammo, GlassHouse Service, Microsoft Windows 7, FireWire, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Microsoft releases Dryad concurrent-programming code to academics

It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the radar screen, with Microsoft's release of the Dryad code to academics and researchers. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Academics, Radar, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Non-Microsoft developers to get a peek at CHESS concurrency test tool

More than a few big-name groups at Microsoft have been using Microsoft Research's CHESS testing tool, including the Midori distributed operating-system incubation team, the Singularity managed-code OS team, the Dryad distributed application-engine team and the Cosmos distributed-storage team. It sounds like non-Microsoft developers may get their hands on it some...

Tags: Developer, Team, Tool, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., CHESS, Productivity

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destination

Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destinationmulticoreinfo.comCheck out http://multicoreinfo.com for multicore related news and programming resources.Tired of CoresI'm tired of the core nonsense. How about we use the existing cores more effectively?Anyone stick a scratched CD/DVD into a Vista machine and enjoy the explorer freeze-up while some blocking i/o is going on?...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tahiti, multi-core, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Build your own 3-D virtual trees

Build your own 3-D virtual treesGoogle SketchUpGoogle SketchUp is an excellent 3d modeling program that is very easy to use - after you work your way through the online tutorial videos. I hope it is easy to load trees made with Dryad into SketchUp, because SketchUp is more geared...

Tags: Google SketchUp, SketchUp, 3D

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work

Microsoft officials have been talking up, as of late, the need for some fundamental changes in software design and development to accommodate the shift to many cores on client systems. There are several Microsoft Research projects focusing on various aspects of the many-core challenge. The newest and seemingly most far-reaching...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Memory System, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-23

MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computing

MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computingYeesh......you know things about the company I work at that I didn't know. Didn't know the Dryad team was based out of Mountain View (my official home office, though I live in LA).Microsoft DryadGoogle has left a relatively clear roadmap of the technical...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Dryad, distributed computing

Discussion threads 2006-09-26