10-4 Episode 6: Parallel Extensions

Posted By: Jason Olson | Jan 22nd @ 6:18 PM | 74,860 Views | 20 Comments

In this episode of 10-4, we start taking a look at Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. We'll look at some of the surface-area of the Parallel Extensions API and provide you with enough information to start working with it yourself in the Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC.

Remember that we are running these bits within a virtual machine with a single virtual processor, so you won't be able to see the performance improvements from the library. However, you will be able to start get a feel for the API itself. In future episodes, we will dive into deeper details of the various parts of Parallel Extensions.

Also, in next week's episode, Jonathan Carter will be back to talk about another new feature in ASP.NET 4.0, so make sure to stay tuned for that!

For more 10-4 episodes, be sure to visit:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4

Visual Studio Topic Area on Channel 9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio

Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC:
http://tinyurl.com/GetCTP

Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit
http://tinyurl.com/VS10Kit

Concurrency MSDN Dev Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/concurrency

10-4! Over and out!
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#Jan 22nd @ 11:58 PM
ViktorM
ViktorM
There is no video this time?
#Jan 23rd @ 1:18 AM
Yankee
Yankee
same problem here... just voice, no video
#Jan 23rd @ 1:33 AM
aL_
aL_
Rx ftw
as with a bunch of other videos, wmv-high link is dead :/ the silverlight player seems to point to the wma file..

maybe gremlins has invaded the c9 servers :O that would also explain the scilence from the c9 team Wink
#Jan 23rd @ 2:55 AM
Vaso
Vaso
I have got video but no voice!! Smiley What is going on here Smiley Just kidding. WMV (High) is working for me Smiley
#Jan 23rd @ 3:31 AM
Raffo
Raffo
(same problem here with the missing video, but WMV worked fine.)

Maybe I missed it in the video, but if I got this right, the Parallel.For is the younger (and stronger Wink ) brother of C++ OpenMP ("#pragma omp parallel for"), right? Is there a difference between those two (besides the nice things like a ready-to-use ForEach) or is Parallel basically the .Net port of OpenMP?
#Jan 23rd @ 5:09 AM
Rhapsody
Rhapsody
In Metal We Trust
Again a very interesting video.

Thanks!
#Jan 23rd @ 8:18 AM
spivonious
spivonious
Are the any differences in the IL code between manually doing the threads and using something like Parallel.For?
#Jan 23rd @ 8:53 AM
JasonOlson
JasonOlson
Sorry all, some of the media links appeared to be messed up. I have added links to the correct media files, so hopefully there shouldn't be a problem anymore.
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