.NET Parallel Programming

All about Async/Await, System.Threading.Tasks, System.Collections.Concurrent, System.Linq, and more…

Implementing the Asynchronous Programming Model with Future

One of our design goals for the Task Parallel Library is to integrate well into existing asynchronous mechanisms in the .NET Framework.  And one of the most common concurrency-related patterns in the .NET Framework is the Asynchronous Programming Model (APM), which typically manifests as a BeginXx method that kicks off an asynchronous ...

Burton Smith on Channel 9

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...

Interested in parallel computing? We’re hiring!

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...

Parallel Aggregations in PLINQ

Quick Overview of LINQ Aggregations In order to explain the issues we encounter when parallelizing aggregations in PLINQ, let's first take a quick look at how aggregations work in LINQ.Aggregation is an operation that iterates over a sequence of input elements, maintaining an accumulator that contains the intermediate result. At each step, a ...