Are you attending TechEd in New Orleans this week? If so, check out the multitude of parallel computing-related breakout sessions, including: The first two (DEV314 and DEV317) are being presented by Huseyin Yildiz, one of the primary developers on the Parallel Computing Platform team responsible for the Task Parallel ...
I'm going to be in Manhattan on June 29th, and while there I'll be presenting to a joint meeting of the NYC .NET Developer's Group and the New York ALT.NET Group on parallel programming with .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010. Details are available here, and I'll look forward to seeing you there!Thanks!Stephen...
With TPL, there are several ways to create and start a new task. One way is to use the constructor for task followed by a call to the Start method, e.g. new Task(...).Start();and the other is by using the StartNew method of TaskFactory, e.g. Task.Factory....
In coordination with today's launch of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, several case studies have been published on how companies are taking advantage of parallel computing with the .NET Framework to improve the performance of their applications. It's exciting to see the benefits these companies are seeing and how parallelism...
About six months ago, we posted on this blog to ask for details on if/how you're using Parallel Extensions, and we got a great number of awesome responses... thanks!! As that blog post has long since faded into distant memory, we're asking again :)Are you using Parallel Extensions, the parallelism support introduced with .NET 4? e.g. ...
(The full set of ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour posts is available here.)The Task Parallel Library provides the Task.Wait method, which synchronously waits for the target Task to complete. If the Task completed successfully, the method simply returns. If the Task completed due to an unhandled exception or cancellation, Wait throws ...
(The full set of ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour posts is available here.)Caches are ubiquitous in computing, serving as a staple of both hardware architecture and software development. In software, caches are often implemented as dictionaries, where some data is retrieved or computed based on a key, and then that key and its resulting ...
Thanks to everyone who attended our three breakout sessions at the Visual Studio 2010 Launch and DevConnections conference this week in Las Vegas. Attached to this blog post are the slide decks that were presented at the talks. The code from the talks is available either as part of our Parallel Programming in .NET 4 samples ...
For a relatively advanced feature, I've been surprised how often this question has come up recently. When a task completes, its continuations become available for execution, and by default, a continuation will be scheduled for execution rather than executed immediately. This means that the continuation has to be queued to the ...
(The full set of ParallelExtensionsExtras Tour posts is available here.) The Task Parallel Library isn’t just about CPU-bound operations. The Task class is a great representation for any asynchronous operation, even those implemented purely as asynchronous I/O.Task’s ability to represent arbitrary asynchronous operations ...
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