How to Parallelize Your Application - Part 3 Using Tasks

Posted: Mar 11, 2010 at 8:55 AM

By: Bruce D Kyle

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In Part 3 of this series, ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle, explores three ways of using the parallel library features in .NET 4, System.Threading.Tasks, in your application.

Using System.Threading.Tasks.Task class library
Using Parallel For, ForEach, and Invoke
Using Parallel LINQ to Objects

In this three part series, see how you can use new features in .NET Framework 4 to take advantage of multi-core processors.

In Part 1 of the series, we show why you care about multiple processors and how it can effect the performance in your application.
In Part 2 we compare the new features in .NET with Threads.
In Part 3 we show three ways of using the parallel features to enable your application for multi-core processors.

For more information and to see the code used in the video, see How to Get Started with Multi-Core: Parallel Processing You Can Use.

Other parallel computing resources:

Microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2.aspx
MSDN Concurrency Dev-Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/concurrency
Dev-Team Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam

http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/labels/ParallelComputing.html

For up to date information for developers and ISVs, see US ISV Developer Community Blog

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