In his blog , Eric Eilebrecht explains why when writing multithreaded applications today we should stick to the weak ECMA memory model instead of CLR’s much stronger memory model. In principal, I have no issue with using a weaker model than the CLR...

Memory is usually a shared resource on multithreaded systems therefore access to it must be regulated and fully specified. This specification is often called a “Memory Model”. Optimisations performed by compilers and the emergence of multi-core processors...

The Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft has recently launched the Parallel Computing Development Centre along with our first CTP of Parallel FX . In here, I will explore some aspects of the framework. If you feel comfortable with the basics...