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CppCast Episode 47: Software Defined Visualization with Jeff Amstutz

By robwirving | Mar 4, 2016 10:24 AM | Tags: None

Episode 47 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Jeff Amstutz to discuss Software Defined Visualization and Intel's SPMD Compiler.

CppCast Episode 47: Software Defined Visualization with Jeff Amstutz

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Jeff is a Visualization Software Engineer at Intel, where he works on the open source OSPRay project. He enjoys all things ray tracing, high performance computing, clearly implemented code, and the perfect combination of Git/CMake/modern C++. Prior to joining Intel, Jeff was an HPC software engineer at SURVICE Engineering where he worked on interactive ballistic simulation applications for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, implemented using C++, CUDA, and Qt. When he is able, Jeff enjoys academic research in ray tracing and high performance computing, with a specific interest in multi-hit ray tracing algorithms and applications for both graphics 3D rendering and ray-based simulations.

In his spare time, Jeff enjoys powerlifting, golf, being an electric guitar nerd, and studying a wide spectrum of music ranging from progressive metal to ambient electronic music.

GoingNative 47: MSVC++ is* C++17 standard library feature complete!

By Marco Arena | Mar 1, 2016 06:09 AM | Tags: visual studio

[Updated to reflect the original post's title change. -- Ed]

 

*as of this video's release date, for the standard library

 

An in-depth look at what new C++17 standard library features are available in yet another round of STL updates:

GoingNative 47: MSVC++ is* C++17 standard library feature complete!

by Gabriel Ha

From the video:

as_const(), std::<chrono> helper functions, expression SFINAE in std::result_of and std::function, Improving overload detection for std::pair and std::tuple...

How to try these updates:

CppCast Episode 46: Hybrid C++/Javascript apps with Sohail Somani

By robwirving | Feb 27, 2016 06:54 AM | Tags: None

Episode 46 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Sohail Somani to discuss building hybrid apps with Javascript and C++.

CppCast Episode 46: Hybrid C++/Javascript apps with Sohail Somani

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Sohail Somani is a contract cross-platform application developer who has been working in C++ and Python for over 10 years. He has worked in a variety of fields such as computer graphics, C++ compilers, finance and plain old desktop apps. Sohail's obsession with (or hate of) time tracking led him to create Worklog Assistant, a cross-platform time tracker for JIRA, which is in use by more than a thousand companies worldwide. He hopes to one day achieve time tracking nirvana for his users so that he can finally move on to something else. He might be too optimistic...

Otherwise, Sohail is a full-time, work-at-home dad of 2 since 2007. He enjoys playing hockey and listening to rap music. You can contact him at [email protected] - but he doesn't recommend that you visit the domain.

CppCast Episode 45: C++ in the Visual Effects Industry with Paul Miller

By robwirving | Feb 19, 2016 08:57 AM | Tags: None

Episode 45 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Paul Miller to discuss C++ in the Visual Effects Industry.

CppCast Episode 45: C++ in the Visual Effects Industry with Paul Miller

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Paul Miller is a partner and lead engineer at Digital Film Tools/Silhouette FX. He has been writing visual effects and image processing software for over 20 years, and has been using C++ for most of that time. He started his love of graphics and digital music on the Amiga in 1986, teaching himself C with K&R and the Amiga ROM Kernel manuals. In 1992 he ended up Wisconsin, writing software for the relatively new digital post production industry on Silicon Graphics workstations, and has been writing widely-used tools for that industry since. He uses Qt for cross-platform UI, Python, OpenGL, and OpenCL extensively.

He holds a private pilot's license and enjoys going to movies and beer festivals.

CppCast Episode 44: HPC and more with Bryce Lelbach

By robwirving | Feb 10, 2016 07:47 AM | Tags: None

Episode 44 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Bryce Lelbach to discuss High Performance Computing and other C++ topics.

CppCast Episode 44: HPC and more with Bryce Lelbach

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a US Department of Energy research facility. Working alongside a team of mathematicians and physicists, he develops and analyzes new parallel programming models for exascale and post-Moore architectures. Bryce is one of the developers of the HPX C++ runtime system; he spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative, and has occasionally contributed to the Boost C++ libraries. Bryce is an organizer for C++Now and CppCon conferences and he is passionate about C++ community development. He serves as LBNL's representative to the C++ standards committee.

Fundamentals of Type-Dependent Code Reuse - Mark Isaacson - NDC Oslo 2015

By Mark | Feb 7, 2016 11:41 PM | Tags: advanced

From NDC Oslo 2015:

Fundamentals of Type-Dependent Code Reuse

by Mark Isaacson

About the video:

This talk surveys different code reuse problems that can be solved by leveraging type information. Mark talks about how you can optimize your algorithms so that certain types use a "fast path", all while hiding that complexity from your users. He also talks about various ways to create "opt-in" functions for your classes. The talk is accessible to novices but builds gradually to complex ideas, including a theoretical C++17 "Mixer" class that allows users to add arbitrary functions to any type, including ints, on an instance by instance granularity.