Stephen Toub - MSFT

Partner Software Engineer, .NET

Stephen Toub is a developer on the .NET team at Microsoft.

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A Tour Through the Parallel Programming Samples for .NET 4

December 9th, 2009
On Code Gallery, we have a plethora of samples that highlight aspects of the .NET Framework 4 that help with writing scalable and efficient parallel applications.  This post examines each of those samples, providing an overview of what each provides...

Updated samples for parallel programming

December 6th, 2009
We've refreshed our samples for parallel programming with the .NET Framework 4.  Thanks to the gracious assistance of the fabulous Lisa Feigenbaum and others on the Visual Basic team, in this refresh the majority of the samples are now available not only in C# but also in Visual Basic. The samples are available for download at https://...

Updated Parallel Computing Developer Center on MSDN

December 3rd, 2009
Check out the updated Parallel Computing Developer Center on MSDN.  Both the look and the content have been revised significantly… (image) Enjoy...

PDC09 Parallelism Session Videos Now Available

November 21st, 2009
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  Managed code in Visual Studio 2010...

Reactive Extensions and Parallel Extensions

November 19th, 2009
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 ...

Microsoft Biology Foundation now using Parallel Extensions

November 13th, 2009
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 ...

Scaling out PLINQ: DryadLINQ at PDC09 and Supercomputing09

November 11th, 2009
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 ...

Patterns for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework

November 9th, 2009
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....

Attending PDC09? Meet with the Parallel Computing Platform team.

November 2nd, 2009
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...

Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2

November 2nd, 2009
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...