Charles from Channel 9 sat down with several of us from the Parallel Computing Platform team to discuss the Task Parallel Library component of Parallel Extensions. A video of the conversation is now available on Channel9: https://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=384229. We hope you like it, and as always, feedback is welco...

Burton Smith is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and an industry leader in the fields of parallel and high-performance computing.  As part of a new video series we've kicked off, the folks at Channel 9 have posted a terrific hour-long interview with Burton about the past, present, and future of parallel computing.  Definitely check it out....

If you're reading this post, you most likely have an interest in parallel computing, writing concurrent software, and the like.  Take that interest a step further, and help us make the manycore era a successful reality by coming to work on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft.We have a good number of positions available: ...

When teaching recursion in an introductory computer science course, one of the most common examples used involves a tree data structure.  Trees are useful in this regard as they are simple and recursive in nature, with a tree's children also being trees, and allow for teaching different kinds of traversals (in-order, pre-order, post-order...

In the Seattle area and want to hear more about PLINQ?  Igor Ostrovsky, a developer on the Parallel Extensions team, will be speaking today at the Seattle Code Camp from 3:00-4:15pm.  Check it out!

Sometimes very simple additions to an API or implementation make me happy.  One such nicety in the CTP of PLINQ is the implementation of ToString on the concrete types that represent query operators.  These implementations provide a textual representation of the query structure, which can be very nice for debugging purposes. Consider...

Joe Duffy, our dev lead, appeared on the 12/25/07 edition of .NET Rocks!, speaking about Parallel Extensions and the Task Parallel Library: "Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft's Joe Duffy about the Task Parallel Library, which promises to make multi-threaded programming easier for us all."Enjoy!

Over on his blog, Don Syme has a post about F# and Parallel Extensions: "Over the coming year I expect we'll be seeing this library used very widely from F#, and we'll eventually be using the TPL as a key underlying technology for F# asynchronous workflows. TPL excels at CPU-intensive parallelism and exploiting multiple cores, especially ...

PLINQ is a very cool technology, and I believe it will prove useful for parallelizing operations in a wide range of important scenarios.  Moreover, I believe that the programming model it provides will enable a wide-range of developers to easily take advantage of concurrency in their applications.  However, one of the risks involved ...

Daniel Moth is on a roll.  Two weeks ago he created three great overview screencasts for Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework.  Today, he released a fourth video, covering the Task and TaskManager classes.  Thanks, Daniel!  We'll get this added to the MSDN Parallel Computing developer center soon, but in the meantime, head ...