Chicago Architects Group - April 2009 Meeting

Enterprise, Solution, and Infrastructure architects are the hearts of their businesses. We each try to make sense of the landscape that is our business and form order out of chaos. We do this with knowledge and experience.

The Chicago Architects Group is founded with the goal to unite architects into a community for collaboration and knowledge sharing. The group is for people to meet their peers and share some stories and ideas.

The Chicago Architects Group encourages everyone with an interest in technical architecture to join us for our next meeting on Thurs, April 30th at the ITA in downtown Chicago.

Refreshments are supplied and bring your thoughts and questions. Attendance is without cost. We will have some giveaways from one of our sponsors. 

Presentation :
Presentation at 5:30pm, doors open at 5:15pm

The Parallel Programing Skill Gap
by Gregg Cooke and John Shafaee

By now, everyone is familiar with multicore CPUs and their promise, and some have even started down the parallelization path to make best use of all those cores.  But parallel programming is tough: bugs can be non-deterministic, the dynamics of parallelism are non-intuitive, and the development toolset is still not robust enough to support parallelization of legacy code.  The easiest wins are in greenfield development...but who every has a green field these days?  In this session, we will present the challenges we see facing developers stepping into the parallelization gap and explore ways of avoiding the gap altogether while still realizing the best that multicore CPUs have to offer.

 Followed by open forum