[Hrgeeks] Hampton Roads .NET Users Group - June 9th

[Kevin Griffin]

Hey Everyone,

The Hampton Roads .NET Users Group is having its next meeting on June 9th,
in Chesapeake.  Welcome time begins at 6:00pm, and the meeting starts at
6:30.  We have free food and drinks, and plenty of swag to give away.  Hope
you all can make it.  Please RSVP at the link below if you'd like to
attend.  Address is on our home page and on the RSVP page.

RSVP: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=138597

http://www.hrnug.org

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Parallel Extensions for .NET

The manycore revolution started several years ago. Striving to conserve
power while meeting the ever-growing demand for performance, chip
manufacturers have been focusing on adding more computing cores to their
packaging instead of ratcheting up the clock speeds. You've seen this for
yourself. Almost every $800 laptop now has two computing cores. Soon, four
cores will be commonplace on desktop computers. By 2013, the average
software application is expected to have access to 8 or more processors
whether it’s running in the cloud, in your server farm or on the desktop.
The key to taking advantage of this new infrastructure is multi-threading.
But multi-threading is hard because you have to deal with ugly things like
mutexes, monitors, semaphores and other locking mechanisms. Not only is it
difficult to understand but multithreaded code is usually very difficult to
debug, test and maintain with confidence.


What if there was a better way to take advantage of the manycore revolution?
What if concurrent programming were baked into the platform so that anyone
could do multithreading and do it well? Microsoft has a vision for that.
They have been busy building a technology stack that makes so-called
concurrent programming much simpler than it has been in the past. Really
impressive performance gains are available using just a few lines of code.
Best of all, the average developer can do this because there are no mutexes,
no semaphores and no locks required. None of that craziness! During this
highly interactive session, Kevin Hazzard will show you how you can leverage
the Parallel Extensions for .NET to do some truly amazing things. Every
developer will get something valuable from this session, no matter how
experienced they are.
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