Parallel Computing

Microsoft Excel has become an indispensible calculation, prototyping, and simulation tool that handles complex multi-variable models.  A fictitious case study is described where the customer, an insurance underwriter, explores over one trillion scenarios to optimize investments that hedge its…

In this session, Don McCrady discusses how C++ programmers can fully utilize multicore in their applications using the Concurrency Runtime (ConcRT), the Parallel Pattern Library (PPL), and the Asynchronous Agents Library that ship with Visual Studio 2010. Download Don's slidedeck for…

Stephen Toub presents on implementing parallel patterns using .NET 4.  This 45-minute presentation's material is pulled from Stephen's parallel patterns paper.

This screencast with Chris Bowen is an overview of writing parallel code using the new classes and features available in .NET Framework 4 and the tools in Visual Studio 2010.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, this walks through the basics of parallel…

In this demo we showcase efforts in MSR to collaborate with external researchers to explore the application of new technologies, specifically Dryad and DryadLINQ, to big data research problems in science. We also highlight our efforts to provide software and services to academics across the world,…

In Part 2 of this series, ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle, explores the differences between Threads and System.Threading.Tasks in .NET 4.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…

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…

In Part 1 of this series, ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle, explores the rationale for your applications to embrace multi-core technologies offered on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.In this three part series, see how you can use new features in .NET Framework 4 to take advantage of…

How you can use multi-core and many-core power to increase the performance of your application flexibly – is what Parallel Computing in Visual Studio 2010. It’s flexible as it does not wait for us to change the code based on hardware power. If you are deploying your application to single core…

In case you haven’t realized it, the new trend in computer chip technology is multi-core. This is where most of the speed improvements moving forward will come from on our computers. To take full advantage of this however it is necessary to design your applications using Parallel Programming…