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Deploying Windows Compute Cluster Server

One of the huge challenges for deploying large numbers of any kind of server is how to actually do this. To help resolve the vagaries around deploying…

Using the Process Class to call command-line utilities

Part of the reason for my experimentation with deployment techniques has to do with figuring out how to manage and deploy a cluster of Microsoft Office SharePoint…

Mixing It Up in Second Life

The AMD Summer Tech Mixer, held on July 29th in Second Life, was a great event, both fun and educational. The main crux of the event was…

Join us on July 29th for a Second Life mixer on Dev Central Island!

Please join us on Sunday, July 29th, for the next developer event in Second Life. This informal mixer will take place from 1-4pm SLT (US Pacific Time…

A bit of humor for the day — is your software project doomed?

You may have seen this list floating around recently, it has been digg’d up to the top. It’s the “101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is…

AMD Tech Day at Develop Brighton UK

Folks in the UK and nearby should definitely check out this free AMD Tech Day on July 27, happening with the Develop Conference in Brighton. This AMD…

We’ve been blogged about already

Interesting, someone out there has already picked up on our newly launched forums and blogs, and has written us up. He poses some interesting questions about what…

Fun with Intrinsics

When porting 32-bit code to 64-bit code, one of the issues that must be dealt with is the absence of inline assembly language support in the Microsoft…

Welcome to AMD High Performance Computing (HPC)

Hi everyone. I’m John McCrae. I work on the Microsoft team here at AMD. AMD is dedicated to providing its HPC customers (both Windows and Linux) with…

Welcome to Hard-Core Software Optimization!

Welcome to our blog. This blog is from the Developer Performance Team at AMD. We will mostly concentrate on software optimization and performance topics. Certainly other areas…