Sunday, December 30, 2007

Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework (ParallelFX)

The closing general session of TechEd Europe this year was "The irrestible forces meet the moveable objects" from Pat Helland and it talked about how economic and technological forces will impact the way that we develop applications.

One of these technological forces is the shift to multi and many core processors. To take advantage of this massive rise in processing power, there is a now a community tech preview of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework, a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism and coordination on parallel hardware unified by a common work scheduler.

 

Download Microsoft Parallel extensions to .NET Framework 3.5, December 2007 Community Technology Preview

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