Feedback Requested Archives | .NET Parallel Programming

New Feature? :: Delayed cancellation

Danny ShihNovember 4, 2010Nov 4, 201011/4/10

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 ...

New Feature? :: ThreadLocal.Values

Danny ShihOctober 21, 2010Oct 21, 201010/21/10

We’ve been considering adding a Values property to System.Threading.ThreadLocal<T>. Values would return a collection of all current values from all threads (e.g. what you’d get if you evaluated Value from each thread). This would allow for easy aggregations, and in fact in our Parallel Extensions Extras we have a ...

Creating pre-completed Tasks

Danny ShihOctober 7, 2010Oct 7, 201010/7/10

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

Massimo MascaroFebruary 4, 2010Feb 4, 201002/4/10

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

Stephen Toub - MSFTAugust 12, 2008Aug 12, 200808/12/08

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

Stephen Toub - MSFTAugust 1, 2008Aug 1, 200808/1/08

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 ...

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