Keeping Parallelism Balanced is a Must

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It is very important to optimize applications for existing and forthcoming multicore microprocessors. However, a lack of balance in parallelism levels could lead to explosive parallelism with resulting slowdown rather than speedup.
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Alternatives for Parallelizing Legacy Serial Code

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Applications developed using modern programming languages can become legacy code faster than expected. Multicore microprocessors have been found guilty of transforming outstanding serial code into legacy code in just a few years. However, there are many alternatives to translate multicore power into application performance making small changes to the legacy serial code.
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Silverlight 3 Beta 1 Multi-core programming possibilities using C#

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This post talks about the possibilities offered by Silverlight 3 Beta 1 to create RIAs that take advantage of multi-core microprocessors.

Designing Rich Internet Applications With Parallelism in Mind

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Are you still designing RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) using a serial programming approach? If that's the case, then you are losing a big opportunity to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors.

Measuring Parallelism: How Much Power Are You Wasting?

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Management professionals love metrics. However, they don't like the idea to optimize applications that are currently running. Thus, what about showing them some metrics about the power that they are wasting using a free tool?

Exploiting a quad-core CPU using C# parallel programming

This is what you will learn following the exercises in the book "C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide". You will learn to develop applications that exploit modern multicore CPUs. No tricks, what you see is what you get!

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C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide

Are you tired of watching your dual-core CPU usage around 50%?
Are you tired of watching your quad-core CPU usage around 25%?
Do you work with C#?
Do you want to exploit all the cores available in modern computers?
Do you want to parallelize your algorithms?
Do you want to improve your applications' performance without reading 2,000 pages?
If your answer to this six questions is YES, then, my new book "C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide", published by Packt Publishing, can help you.

The book offers a practical guide to developing responsive multi-threaded applications in C#to tackle the multicore complexity in around 400 pages.

This is a concise practical guide that will help you learn C# threaded programming, with lot of examples and clear explanations. It is packed with screenshots to aid your understanding of the process.

You can also download the code samples from Packt's website support for this book.

Comments and feedback about the book are both welcome!