From 6e271f46789199e1aa99347b57c1547174f49c06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Webmaster Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:48:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated events --- events.xml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/events.xml b/events.xml index 9f2f9f1..3654949 100755 --- a/events.xml +++ b/events.xml @@ -12,17 +12,35 @@ - - A talk by Stefanus Du Toit + + How a Waterloo software company is changing the way people program computers.

- To be announced + For decades, mainstream parallel processing has been thought of as +inevitable. Up until recent years, however, improvements in +manufacturing processes and increases in clock speed have provided +software with free Moore's Law-scale performance improvements on +traditional single-core CPUs. As per-core CPU speed increases have +slowed to a halt, processor vendors are embracing parallelism by +multiplying the number of cores on CPUs, following what Graphics +Processing Unit (GPU) vendors have been doing for years. The Multi- +core revolution promises to provide unparalleled increases in +performance, but it comes with a catch: traditional serial +programming methods are not at all suited to programming these +processors and methods such as multi-threading are cumbersome and +rarely scale beyond a few cores. Learn how, with hundreds of cores in +desktop computers on the horizon, a local software company is looking +to revolutionize the way software is written to deliver on the +promise multi-core holds. +

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+ Refreshments (and possible pizzaa!) will be provided.

- A talk by Reg Quinton @@ -31,7 +49,7 @@

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