Parallel Extensions CTP and the Parallel Computing Developer Center [Judd Hall]

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x3e4511 — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:41:33 GMT

re: Parallel Extensions CTP and the Parallel Computing Developer Center [Judd Hall]

Inbar Gazit — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:02:35 GMT

Great job you guys!

I'm going to download this right now since I have this new PC with 4 processors here to see what cool things I can build here...

re: Parallel Extensions CTP and the Parallel Computing Developer Center [Judd Hall]

AaronLST — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:28:16 GMT

I watched the channel 9 video on this. Me and the guys I work with have been anticipating something like this for awhile now, and it sounds like MS has been thinking about it to. So I'm excited to hear about this.

However, it sounds like tasks will have to be completely independent, without any type of scheduling based on resource usage. I have always hoped for something that allows tasks to define other "dependent" tasks that must complete first. This would allow the tasks to be scheduled dynamically in such a way as to guarantee some order of operation(and allow the developer to make some assumptions about the state of shared resources), but still allow concurrency. Maybe this is it, but it sounded like shared state was out of the question, and the closing attitude was that tasks will have to be completely independent and developers will just have to change the way they do things.

I always think about what I've read about the internals of how database engines perform scheduling, and it just seems like they are way ahead of the game on making concurrency with shared state easy.

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From the software development trenches — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:35:59 GMT

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