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Feedback Requested - .NET Parallel Programming

New Feature? :: Delayed cancellation

November 4, 2010 Nov 4, 2010 11/4/10
Danny Shih
 We’re interested in adding support for scheduling cancellation.  For example: // Create a token source that will Cancel() after a delay var cts = new CancellationTokenSource(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));// And/or schedule a Cancel() call cts.CancelAfter(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100));We’ve heard from many folks ...

Creating pre-completed Tasks

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10
Danny Shih
 We’ve been considering adding support for creating completed Tasks from an existing result.  Here’s a prototypical example of where this could be valuable. void Task<float> ComputeAsync(...) {     if (!resultIsCached)     {         return Task<...

DryadLinq now available also for non-academic use

February 4, 2010 Feb 4, 2010 02/4/10
Massimo Mascaro
Several months ago, Microsoft announced for academic customers the availability of DryadLINQ.  DryadLINQ is a LINQ provider developed by Microsoft Research that enables  .NET developers to use the LINQ programming model for writing distributed queries and computations against a cluster of computers using Windows HPC Server. DryadLINQ...

Feedback requested: Enumerating Concurrent Collections

August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08
Stephen Toub - MSFT
The June 2008 CTP of Parallel Extensions contained a first look at some of the work we're doing to augment the .NET Framework with a set of additional coordination data structures that aid in the development of highly concurrent applications.  This included two thread-safe collections, ConcurrentQueue<T> and ConcurrentStack<T>...

Feedback requested: TaskManager shutdown, Fair scheduling

August 1, 2008 Aug 1, 2008 08/1/08
Stephen Toub - MSFT
One of the primary reasons we've released CTPs of Parallel Extensions is to solicit feedback on the design and functionality it provides.  Does it provide all of the APIs you need to get your job done?  Are there scenarios you wished the APIs supported and that you need to work around in klunky ways?  And so forth.  We've ...