You have read several articles here about how the Microsoft Concurrency Runtime enables task-based parallelism. Now Daniel Moth has an article on his blog that describes the debugging functionality offered by VS 2010's Parallel Tasks window. The parallel...

In my previous post, I addressed the motivation behind using concurrency runtime’s synchronization primitives and also introduced Critical Section. In this blog, I will cover concurrency runtime’s reader writer lock. Reader Writer Lock This class...

In a concurrent world multiple entities work together to achieve a common goal. A common way to interact and coordinate is to use shared data. However, shared data must be accessed carefully. This can be achieved through synchronization, primarily using...

In my previous blog post, I gave an introduction to the native concurrency runtime in Visual Studio 2010. For a general picture of the native concurrency runtime, and high level roles of each of its components please refer to this post. Today, I will...

Microsoft has recently released a beta for Windows 7, and a look at the official web site ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx ) will show you a pretty impressive list of new features and usability enhancements. I encourage you to...

Charles Torre just posted a great Channel9 session with Windows kernel architect Dave Probert on functionality new to Windows7: User Mode Scheduled (UMS) Threads. Much like fibers, UMS threads enable a user mode scheduler (like the Concurrency Runtime...

Last week, Don McCrady, Damien Watkins from the C++ team and I sat down with Charles from Channel9 and chatted about the Concurrency Runtime, new C++ work in Visual Studio 2010 and how our teams are working together. As Charles pointed out, we also...

In this blog I will be giving an introduction to the native concurrency support in Visual Studio 2010. My motivation is that an architectural understanding of the features will enable the reader to make the most of the underlying infrastructure. In future...

Last week, we blogged about the Visual Studio 2010 CTP which includes the Concurrency Runtime, the Parallel Pattern Library and the Asynchronous Agents Library which is available as a Virtual PC image. As the Parallel Extensions to .NET team blogged yesterday...

In his blog post on Monday, Soma mentioned some of the great things happening at PDC 2008 and also announced the Visual Studio 2010 CTP. We’re very excited to announce that this CTP includes the Concurrency Runtime, the Parallel Pattern and Asynchronous...

A few weeks ago several of us from the Parallel Computing Platform sat down with Charles Torre from Channel 9 to discuss the Concurrency Runtime that we've blogged about here. We talk about the motivation of the Concurrency Runtime, how its scheduler...

When attempting to parallelize an algorithm, programmers are frequently thwarted by the presence of shared state . Any state that can potentially be modified by multiple threads simultaneously during a parallel operation must be synchronized somehow to...

In the next several blog posts I want to continue the early look of what we're considering in the Concurrency Runtime and the Parallel Libraries built on top of it. Today, I'll share primitives for expressing fine-grained parallelism and concurrency....

Welcome to the Parallel Programming in Native Code blog. I started this blog so that I and others on my team would have a place to talk about topics relating to native concurrency. I want to use this blog to provide early looks into what we’re thinking...