Hi All,

In anticipation to the Erlang Factory, we have the opportunity to listen
to Ulf Wiger in London next week. He will be talking about Multicore
Programming in Erlang, looking at trouble shooting Erlang Systems,
stress testing them and providing benchmarks of existing systems which
were migrated to Multicore from single processor architectures.

If there are 10 people interested, the talk will go ahead. Please email
me privately, so I can send out an official notification.

About the speaker:
Ulf Wiger became one of the first commercial users of Erlang (certainly
the first in North America) when he bought a license in 1993. At the
time, he was busy designing disaster response systems in Alaska. In
1996, he joined Ericsson and became Chief Designer of the AXD 301
development. At nearly 2 million lines of Erlang code, AXD 301 is the
most complex system ever built in Erlang, and probably the most complex
commercial system built in any functional language. In recent years, Ulf
has been involved in several products based on the AXD 301 architecture,
and has been an active member of the Open Source Erlang community. In
February 2009, Ulf began his new job as CTO of Erlang Training and
Consulting Ltd.

Talk Abstract: Multicore Programming in Erlang
With the increasing pressure to migrate to multicore architectures, more
and more programmers take an interest in Erlang, with its reputation for
near-painless scalability. In this session, we will cover examples of
typical Erlang programs, studying which patterns scale well on
multicore, and which ones do not. We also look at how to profile
parallel applications, how to ensure their correct behaviour, and how to
debug them.

This is the same talk Ulf gave at QCON in London this March and at the
Erlang Factory in the Bay Area. He will not be speaking at the Erlang
Factory in London, so this is the only chance to see him in action.

We hope to see you there!

Francesco