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The Microsoft Biology Initiative (MBI) is a combined project in Microsoft Research focused on two components: the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) and the Microsoft Biology Tools (MBT).  Both the framework and the tools are related to the areas of computation biology, genomics, and bioinformatics. MBF is a language-neutral bioinformatics too...

One of our team’s field engineers recently sent a link to a Channel 9 video: Steve Michelotti of e.magination on High Performance Web Solutions. This company built a 64-bit web server that handles over 3 billion transactions a day and guarantees a 250 ms response time.  And it goes without saying that they built it on top of .NET. The t...

PLINQ enables developers to scale up computations in order to leverage the multiple cores available in modern hardware. For many problem domains, this is quite useful and sufficient. What happens, however, when a workload being processed is so big that even a manycore machine is insufficient to adequately handle the load? This can be the case with ...

  The new installment of the “CLR Inside Out” column in MSDN Magazine is now available on line.  This month we have an article from Andrew Dai on Exploring the .NET Framework 4 Security Model.  This article discusses how the new .NET Framework 4 security model makes it easier to work with partially trusted code. You c...

I've recently written a detailed paper, "Patterns for Parallel Programming: Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4", on implementing a variety of common parallel patterns with the .NET Framework 4.  The paper is now live in the Microsoft Download Center, and you can grab it from https://www.microsoft.com/do...

Rejoice!  Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is upon us and it includes lots of great changes for the Parallel Extensions.  TPL guru Danny Shih has already covered what’s new in TPL and PLINQ aficionado Ed Essey has covered the best way to use LINQ (specifically between Beta 1 and Beta 2) but your favorite set of thread-safe collections and synchr...

Included in the .NET 4 Framework Beta 2 is a more robust and faster version of PLINQ.  Between B1 and B2, PLINQ changes have mainly been under the covers, so hopefully no need to rewrite any of your applications to see the improvements.  1.       Many improvements to performance and scalability2.  &...

Related posts: What's new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (1/3) What's new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (2/3) Last time, we covered Tasks being detached by default and some refactorings in our multiple-Task continuation APIs.  The final post of this series will discuss Nested Tasks and Unwrap, a Parallel namespace chang...

Are you attending PDC09?  Want to meet with members of the Parallel Computing Platform team?  See https://blogs.msdn.com/visualizeparallel/archive/2009/11/02/the-parallel-computing-platform-team-pcd-09.aspx for more details.

We've posted a whole bunch of samples on Code Gallery showcasing how to use the new parallelism support in the .NET Framework 4.  You can find them at https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples.  Enjoy!