Sessions tagged as Performance
Asynchronous Programming Futures for .NET (C# 5 / VB 11)
This session will take a peek into the future and examine some of the features proposed for C# 5.0. This includes studying async methods which are part of C# 5.0 and build on the PFx Task library. We will also briefly look at the PFx Task libraries to gain the necessary background for working with the new language features. Note that Visual Basic 11 will also have these identical features so in essence we'll be covering VB 11 as well.
CPU Caches and Why You Care
Location: Franz Hall, Room 231
No matter what programming language or technology you use, if your software fails to make effective use of the underlying CPU caches, your system's performance will suffer. A lot. This session provides a wide-ranging overview of your CPU caches, how they operate, and how that affects high-level decisions on things like data structures and traversal strategies. Both single- and multi-threaded execution are considered. Specific topics include different cache types (data, instruction, TLB); private and shared caches; cache lines and speculative prefetching; false sharing; and cache-friendly program organization, data structures, and traversal strategies. If you care at all about performance, the information in this talk is essential. The fact that it's really interesting is simply a bonus :-)
Data Architecture – a "Corner Stone" of EA
Location: Shiley Hall, Room 123
Data Architecture – a 'Corner Stone'of Enterprise Architecture -As the organizations across the globe, aggressively pursues their strategic objectives; a key strategy and method is required in this pursuit, and that is 'Data/Information Availability'. Accurate, reliable and available information enables the organization to make timely and better business decisions. We have seen many differing methodologies over the years with CRM, Portals, B2B efforts and score carding capabilities. The need for well structured and quality information is more important than ever. As a result, we are seeing a significant acceptance and synergy relative to the importance and value having a robust Data Architecture. Most organizations today have a co