November 2007 - Posts
There's a new Parallel Computing developer center on MSDN: "Microsoft’s Parallel Computing developer center is dedicated to providing information, ideas, community, and technology to developers to make it easier to write programs that perform and scale
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I posted about changes we've made to the Task Parallel Library since we published the MSDN Magazine article outlining its design. In this post, I'll do the same thing for PLINQ. Most of the October 2007 article on PLINQ is still accurate. After all, PLINQ
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Back in the October 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine, we published an article on the beginning stages of what has become the Task Parallel Library (TPL) that's part of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. While the core of the library and the principles
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Community Technology Preview (CTP) releases from Microsoft typically provide early looks at the technologies a team is working on. Frequently, CTP quality is nowhere near what folks might expect from Beta releases and the like, and that's ok. The idea
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Software is headed for a fundamental change. Over the last 30 years, developers have relied on exponential growth in computing power in order to dream big. Your cool new application is too slow today? No problem, just wait two years and everyone will
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Here are known correctness bugs as of our December 2007 CTP release: Common The setup for Parallel Extensions may fail on Windows Server 2008 (both 32-bit and 64-bit). As a workaround, Parallel Extensions may be installed manually: From a prompt with
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