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Eric Wilhelm

Scratch Computing

Eric Wilhelm is a software and systems consultant, leader of the Portland Perl Mongers, and author of many CPAN modules. Eric is very involved in the open source community and is a contributor to several open source projects including Test::Harness, Module::Build, parrot, PAR, Jifty, and Moose.

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10:45am Thursday, 07/24/2008

Stick a fork() in It: Parallel and Distributed Perl

Perl
Location: F150

Eric Wilhelm (Scratch Computing) Moderated by: Eric Wilhelm

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Tools and approaches for multithreaded, parallel, and distributed Perl programming. Learn how to redefine your programs to leverage multiple cores and nodes without going insane. Includes analysis of traditionally sequential problems and their parallel implementations. Presents strategies for simple bolt-on clustering and managing parallel tasks. Read more.