The goal of PLINQ is to execute computationally intensive LINQ to Objects queries efficiently by splitting up the work across multiple cores on multi-core machines. However, not all queries are equally appropriate for parallelism. Usually, the best...

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If you’re going to PDC this year, we have four great talks on parallelism coming you’re way and, if you’re not, may we suggest you sign up ? We don’t have the exact dates of the talks yet (we’ll let you know when we do) but here are the talks you won...

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The .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is now available! MSDN Subscribers can download it today, and it will be generally available for download on Wednesday.  More information is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx .  Additionally...

It’s fall, and that means conference season!  In November, members of the Parallel Computing Platform team will be descending upon both PDC09 in Los Angeles and TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin.  We’re extremely excited to see all of you there and...

In a week, I’m going to be traveling through Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, speaking about parallel computing, Visual Studio 2010, and .NET 4, primarily at corporations during the day and at user groups in the evenings. If you’re in the area...

“What does Task.Wait do?” Simple question, right?  At a high-level, yes, the method achieves what its name implies, preventing the current thread from making forward progress past the call to Wait until the target Task has completed, one way or another...

Common operations like map and filter are available in parallelized form through PLINQ, though the names differ.  A map can be achieved with PLINQ’s Select operator, and a filter with PLINQ’s Where operator. For example, I could implement a ParallelMap...

If you’ve been following the development of the Task Parallel Library (TPL), or if you’re an avid reader of this blog, you’re likely aware that the default scheduler in TPL is based on the new and improved ThreadPool in .NET 4. In light of this, though...