The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine just went online yesterday, and it’s chock full of content on parallelism.  Definitely worth a cover to cover read!

Paradigm Shift: Design Considerations For Parallel Programming Coding Tools: Improved Support For Parallelism In The Next Version Of Visual Studio Concurrency Hazards: Solving 11 Likely Problems In Your Multithreaded Code Easy Async: Build Concurrent Apps From Simple F# Expressions Editor’s Note: new Thread(ReadEditorsNote).Start(); yourAttention.WaitOne(); Windows With C++: Exploring High-Performance Algorithms .NET Matters: False Sharing { End Bracket }: Don’t Be Afraid To Throw Away Your Work