November 2009 | Parallel Programming with .NET

PDC09 Parallelism Session Videos Now Available

Stephen Toub - MSFTNovember 21, 2009Nov 21, 200911/21/09

Attendees at PDC09 this past week were privy to quite a few sessions on parallel computing. Now that the videos of these sessions are online, you can view them as well from the comfort of your own home. Here are some of the key parallelism-related sessions from this past week:
Overview

The State of Parallel Programming

Managed code in Visual Studio 2010

Manycore and .NET 4: A Match Made in Visual Studio 2010
PLINQ: LINQ,

Reactive Extensions and Parallel Extensions

Stephen Toub - MSFTNovember 19, 2009Nov 19, 200911/19/09

It’s awesome to see the Reactive Extensions to .NET (Rx) live on the DevLabs site. If you haven’t checked out this exciting project, we urge you to do so. Not only is it cool and useful technology, but the download includes a back ported (and unsupported) release of Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework 3.5 in the form of System.Threading.dll.

Debugging TPL apps in VS2010

Daniel MothNovember 15, 2009Nov 15, 200911/15/09

The new parallel debugger windows in Visual Studio 2010 (Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks) have had many fixes and updates.
I have refreshed the existing content and also added new material for Beta 2. Find links to all of it from my blog post on Parallel Debugging.

Microsoft Biology Foundation now using Parallel Extensions

Stephen Toub - MSFTNovember 13, 2009Nov 13, 200911/13/09

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,

Scaling out PLINQ: DryadLINQ at PDC09 and Supercomputing09

Stephen Toub - MSFTNovember 11, 2009Nov 11, 200911/11/09

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?

Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework

Stephen Toub - MSFTNovember 9, 2009Nov 9, 200911/9/09

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,

What’s new for the coordination data structures in Beta 2?

phillips.joshuaNovember 5, 2009Nov 5, 200911/5/09

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 synchronization primitives are in on the action too.

What’s New in Beta 2 for PLINQ

esseyNovember 5, 2009Nov 5, 200911/5/09

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.

What’s new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (Part 3/3)

Danny ShihNovember 4, 2009Nov 4, 200911/4/09

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.

Attending PDC09? Meet with the Parallel Computing Platform team.

Stephen Toub - MSFTNovember 2, 2009Nov 2, 200911/2/09

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.

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