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...

It’s awesome to see the Reactive Extensions to .NET (Rx) live on the DevLabs site.  If you haven’t checked out this exciting project, we urge you to do so.  Not only is it cool and useful technology, but the download includes a back ported ...

The new parallel debugger windows in Visual Studio 2010 (Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks) have had many fixes and updates. I have refreshed the existing content and also added new material for Beta 2. Find links to all of it from my blog post on...

The Microsoft Biology Initiative (MBI) is a combined project in Microsoft Research focused on two components: the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) and the Microsoft Biology Tools (MBT).  Both the framework and the tools are related to the areas...

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...

I've recently written a detailed paper, "Patterns for Parallel Programming: Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4", on implementing a variety of common parallel patterns with the .NET Framework 4. The paper is now live...

Rejoice! Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is upon us and it includes lots of great changes for the Parallel Extensions. TPL guru Danny Shih has already covered what’s new in TPL and PLINQ aficionado Ed Essey has covered the best way to use LINQ (specifically...

Included in the .NET 4 Framework Beta 2 is a more robust and faster version of PLINQ. Between B1 and B2, PLINQ changes have mainly been under the covers, so hopefully no need to rewrite any of your applications to see the improvements. 1. Many improvements...

Related posts: What's new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (1/3) What's new in Beta 2 for the Task Parallel Library? (2/3) Last time, we covered Tasks being detached by default and some refactorings in our multiple-Task continuation...

Are you attending PDC09? Want to meet with members of the Parallel Computing Platform team? See http://blogs.msdn.com/visualizeparallel/archive/2009/11/02/the-parallel-computing-platform-team-pcd-09.aspx for more details.

We've posted a whole bunch of samples on Code Gallery showcasing how to use the new parallelism support in the .NET Framework 4. You can find them at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples . Enjoy!

Last week, I had the privilege of touring around Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan, speaking about the new parallel computing support in Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4. Many folks I spoke with were interested in getting a copy of the...