Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2008) will be held at Los Angeles Convention Center from October 27 to 30th. There is a symposium of interest for multicore community titiled, “Parallel Computing – A Detailed Look at How Multi-Core Architectures will Unleash Computing Power and Enable Innovation”. It consists of three related sessions on the last day of PDC. Here’s the symposium abstract from their website.
“The compute power encapsulated by the manycore architectures holds the promise of delivering immersive and natural computing experiences to people and businesses. Parallel computing is the key to unlock this power. This symposium frames the challenges of parallelism, presents Microsoft’s roadmap for delivering technologies to solve them, and provides guidance in planning for future solutions. Presenters from Microsoft and Intel will discuss the innovative opportunities that can be opened up by highly parallel applications such as immersive, graphically intensive virtual environments coupled with natural human/computer interfaces and realistic physics. They will discuss how Microsoft and Intel are working together to provide complementary offerings to lead the developers and the PC industry into the manycore era. The symposium concludes with a discussion of incubation technologies designed to help developers produce correct, efficient, maintainable and scalable parallel programs of the future. ”
