There's a new Parallel Computing developer center on MSDN: "Microsoft’s Parallel Computing developer center is dedicated to providing information, ideas, community, and technology to developers to make it easier to write programs that perform and scale well on parallel hardware." Check it out! There are already a plethora of resou...
I posted about changes we've made to the Task Parallel Library since we published the MSDN Magazine article outlining its design. In this post, I'll do the same thing for PLINQ. Most of the October 2007 article on PLINQ is still accurate. After all, PLINQ is largely an implementation of the .NET Standard Query Operators, and...
Back in the October 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine, we published an article on the beginning stages of what has become the Task Parallel Library (TPL) that's part of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. While the core of the library and the principles behind it have remained the same, as with any piece of software in the early sta...
Community Technology Preview (CTP) releases from Microsoft typically provide early looks at the technologies a team is working on. Frequently, CTP quality is nowhere near what folks might expect from Beta releases and the like, and that's ok. The idea is to give all of you in the community a look at what we're working on, giving you eno...
Software is headed for a fundamental change. Over the last 30 years, developers have relied on exponential growth in computing power in order to dream big. Your cool new application is too slow today? No problem, just wait two years and everyone will have computers that run twice as fast. But as Herb Sutter wrote, “the...
Here are known correctness bugs as of our December 2007 CTP release:
