It has been too long since my last post, for which there are a number of reasons. Super Computing 2007 Vacation Preparation New Job Moving I head to Reno, Nevada early tomorrow morning for SC07. I have been trying to get my research ready for presentation.  Hopefully this year will be as fun and interesting [...]

I have been incredibly busy lately and thus there have been no posts. I have finally published the first release of my project Ensurance on CodePlex. It is based on the NUnit 2.4.3 framework and is intended to be used for production code to verify particular constraints in an application. Check out the CodePlex page [...]

I have been playing with Ninject for a couple days now and I am having a lot of fun. One feature I have been really digging is Contextual Binding. The kernel allows multiple modules to be loaded that define the bindings of your types. So depending on which modules and bindings are set, I can [...]

I have used the loop tiling code with scheduling algorithms to parallelize Dustin Campbell’s code from his post A Higher Calling. The parallelized funtionals can be found here. It uses the scheduling algorithm code from the last post. The parallel reduction is actually based on Joe Duffy’s serial reduction.

One of the big problems in writing parallel applications is code correctness. How do we know that our parallel implementations are correct? While multi-core correctness has been researched and documented a great deal, correctness for clustering code appears to still be in its infancy. Writing, debugging, and verifying the correctness of your applications remains incredibly difficult. [...]

Michael Suess from Thinking Parallel was kind enough to point me to a paper he coauthored “Implementing Irregular Parallel Algorithms with OpenMP“. In it he goes on to describe a way to implement the early thread sync that I mentioned using OpenMP. If you are interested in more of his papers, here is his publications page.

From the 2.8.2130 release notes Release Notes – TestDriven.NET: 2.8 993: Retire Visual Studio Express support Joint statement: “Jamie Cansdale and Microsoft Corporation have agreed to concentrate on working together on future releases of TestDriven.Net for Microsoft’s officially extensible editions of Visual Studio, as opposed to spending time litigating their differences.”

I have been following BitterCoder’s series of Castle tutorials for a while, but I just stumbled upon his container tutorials wiki. I think that there is a lot of good information there for someone new to Castle.

I wrote a few matrix multiplication (MM) applications for benchmarking my parallel processing research. I was blown away by how slow the C# implementations were working. I tried to write the MM application a few ways. It turns out that the fastest is a jagged array, type[N][N], rather than type[N*N] or type[N,N]. I even tried [...]