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Wednesday September 24, 2008
Sun TechDays 09 kicks off; see you in Brazil
What is it?
Sun TechDays is a world tour, where we take our
technologies to around 14 cities around the globe and hold 2 or 3 day
events (plus, typically a University Day) talking about current and
future technologies from Sun.
Typically, the tracks include Java SE,
EE, ME technologies, NetBeans IDE, Open Source, and OpenSolaris.
As in past years, I am going to visit some of these events as a speaker
(typically 3-4 events). Its a great learning experience, a wonderful
way to interact with a typically younger crowd and understand the
developer thinking from outside the Sun box . And in a modest way, I am
happy to help educate the community on Sun's developer technologies,
priorities and focus.
What are we talking about with
C/C++/Fortran Tools?Three things:
A broader Sun Studio Overview presentation(preso here) that gives the broad picture with Performance, Parallelism, Productivity Tools (IDE, Debugger, Analyzer) and Multiplatforms (Linux, Solaris) focus
Performance Tuning Tools (preso here) with emphasis on compiler optimization cookbook, observability and tuning tools such as: Performance Analyzer, DTrace GUI (Plugin), D.light and some emphasis on Thread Analyzer for data-race and deadlock detection capability
Parallel Programming (preso here) with emphasis on MPI, Automatic Parallelization/Vectorization, OpenMP, Multi-threading (with support in debugger and Analyzer)
What do you get by attending?A broader Sun Studio Overview presentation(preso here) that gives the broad picture with Performance, Parallelism, Productivity Tools (IDE, Debugger, Analyzer) and Multiplatforms (Linux, Solaris) focus
Performance Tuning Tools (preso here) with emphasis on compiler optimization cookbook, observability and tuning tools such as: Performance Analyzer, DTrace GUI (Plugin), D.light and some emphasis on Thread Analyzer for data-race and deadlock detection capability
Parallel Programming (preso here) with emphasis on MPI, Automatic Parallelization/Vectorization, OpenMP, Multi-threading (with support in debugger and Analyzer)
Tech Days are your opportunity to hear
from and meet
with some of the
brightest engineers from around the world. It's an chance to network
with your
peers, understand more about what's going on from Sun and the industry
and all in a local environment.
The first one kicks off in Brazil next week: Sept 29 - Oct 1.
Posted by tatkar ( Sep 24 2008, 10:40:50 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]
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Monday September 08, 2008
Interesting Read: Parallel Programming Made Easy?
Michael Wolfe, Senior Compiler engineer/architects at
The Portland Group (PGI Compilers)
recently wrote an article featured in
HPCWire
questioning how Easy? one could claim to make Parallel programming.
Some interesting thoughts and views from one of the leading compiler architects from a compiler that has focussed on high performance computing for decades(?) now.
Whether you agree or not is your own personal view of how this important style of programming should be shaped, but he does represent a very important part of the discussion underway today.
Definitely worth a read!
Posted by tatkar
( Sep 08 2008, 09:11:54 AM PDT )
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Wednesday September 03, 2008
Beyond Sun Studio 12:New presentation uploaded
I've uploaded a new preso (PDF) with features, plugins, etc that have been developed in Sun Studio past the last release. You can get the preso
here or in the Presentations section of this blog.
As always, comments are most welcome . We will probably start using some of this material gradually in our regular TechDays (and other) presentations.
The current preso has a number of screenshots of the new features that might be interesting to look at, as well.
Posted by tatkar
( Sep 03 2008, 02:08:53 PM PDT )
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Tuesday September 02, 2008
20 years at Sun
Last month, I officially completed my 20 years at Sun!
On such a momentous occasion (in retrospect, tho nothing about it felt momentous on a day-to-day basis), its hard to put all my thoughts and experiences in a few words (or in any words at all). The best I can say is "its been a great ride and I've enjoyed the ups and downs" .
This particular down period seems a lot more drawn out and troubling, but the enormous talent and ability of the people all around me gives me so much hope.
I hope the next 20 are somewhere near as interesting as the past 20 were!
Posted by tatkar
( Sep 02 2008, 12:55:06 PM PDT )
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