.NET Parallel Programming

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Known Issues in the June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions

The Jun08 CTP is still an early pre-release version that is not ready for production usage.  In addition to on-going feature additions and performance work, there are some known issues that we plan to address in future releases.  Of course, there are always things that we missed and we would love your feedback on them either as ...

Concurrency Pre-Conference Session at the PDC

Interested in parallel programming with .NET and on Windows?  Thinking of attending the Microsoft PDC this year?  Well, if you do, make sure to come a day early.  The Parallel Computing Platform team will be presenting a day-long pre-conference session on October 26th from 10:00am-5:45pm: Concurrent, Multi-core Programming on ...

Parallel Computing Platform at TechEd 2008

(image) Heading to TechEd 2008? Come discover some of the exciting technologies the Parallel Computing Platform team is working on. We're presenting four sessions on parallelism at the Developer conference: DVP205 The Microsoft Parallel Computing Initiative: Bringing Concurrency to the Masses Tuesday, June 3 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM, S210 B ...

Q&As from the 2008 Financial Services Developer Conference

A few weeks ago, I presented on Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework at the 6th annual Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference (the decks from the conference are now available online).  I had a great time and a great audience, and during the presentation on Thursday I received some good questions.  Here are some of ...

New PLINQ video on Channel 9

Igor and Joe from our Parallel Extensions team sat down with Charles from Channel 9 to discuss the inner workings of PLINQ.  The video of the conversation is now available at https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=390736. "Continuing our exploration of the Parallel Computing Platform and the folks who think it up and ...