Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

It’s multicore time. Do you know where your parallelism is?Do you know where your parallelism is? Well you better find it! This is because you must or your users will not see the doubling of performance that they have seen for the last seven or eight generations of microprocessors. Why? Well the chip makers ran out of physics, clocks just couldn’t ...

“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” - Luke in “Cool Hand Luke” A fist full of cores in a server rich environment. If you haven’t noticed that the world has changed, you had better wake up and smell the coffee. The era of killer apps written in serial code is ending. Like the norm in species extinction, the reason many ISVs will not ...

"`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' " Through the Looking Glass Lewis CarrollWhere’s the glory? I work in the cluster business. I can tell you that all too often I have felt like Alice trying to hold a conversation with ...