Parallel Programming with .NET : F#

PDC09 Parallelism Session Videos Now Available

toub — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:05:20 GMT

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-related sessions from this past week:

Overview

The State of Parallel Programming

Managed code in Visual Studio 2010

Native code in Visual Studio 2010

HPC Server

Accelerating Applications Using Windows HPC Server 2008

Research and Incubation

Enjoy!

Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4

toub — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:36:00 GMT

Along with the release of the .NET Framework 4 Beta 1, we've just published a slew of samples that demonstrate using Parallel Extensions in a variety of ways. You can download these from Code Gallery at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ParExtSamples.

These samples include raytracers, a sudoku game, an image colorization algorithm, solvers for the n-queens problem, fractal image generators, and more. The samples include code written to use Parallel Extensions from C#, Visual Basic, F#, and C++/CLI. They include examples of using the Task Parallel Library, PLINQ, new coordination data structures, and even databinding a WPF UI to a collection that has data stored into it from a background thread.

On top of all of this, the samples include a project called "Parallel Extensions Extras", which features a healthy portion of extension methods for .NET 4 types, new data structures to augment what's being shipped in .NET 4, custom schedulers for TPL, and lots of other goodness. Definitely worth a perusal.

Enjoy!

F# and the Task Parallel Library

toub — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:51:00 GMT

Over on his blog, Don Syme has a post about F# and Parallel Extensions:

"Over the coming year I expect we'll be seeing this library used very widely from F#, and we'll eventually be using the TPL as a key underlying technology for F# asynchronous workflows. TPL excels at CPU-intensive parallelism and exploiting multiple cores, especially in conjunction with functional programming. This makes it ideal for use with F#."

Exciting stuff. In the meantime, you can see an example of the Task Parallel Library being used from F# on Jurgen van Gael's blog. Thanks for the example, Jurgen!