.NET Parallel Programming

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Talks - .NET Parallel Programming

MVP Summit presentation on async

February 20, 2013 Feb 20, 2013 02/20/13
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Lucian Wischik and I presented an "async clinic" at the MVP Summit in Bellevue this week.  The async/await keywords in C# and Visual Basic drastically simplify asynchronous programming, but that of course doesn't mean that using them is without any gotchas: the goal of the discussion was to highlight some of the key areas in ...

Presentation on TPL Dataflow in financial applications

May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011 05/2/11
Stephen Toub - MSFT
Matt Davey from Lab49 presented at the Waters North American Trading Architecture Summit April 2011 on using TPL Dataflow in trading solutions.  You can see his slide deck at http://www.slideshare.net/mattdotdavey/waters-north-american-trading-architecture-summit-april-2011. It's awesome to see the technology being used effectively to ...

PDC09 Parallelism Session Videos Now Available

November 21, 2009 Nov 21, 2009 11/21/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
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...

Scaling out PLINQ: DryadLINQ at PDC09 and Supercomputing09

November 11, 2009 Nov 11, 2009 11/11/09
Stephen Toub - MSFT
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 ...