Posted on www.ddj.com/go-parallel
After a long silence since the last CTP (Community Technology Preview), Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 that comes with the new .Net Framework 4.0. This new release will bring new promising features that empower parallel programming using the supported languages.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Use lambda expressions in C# to simplify the parallelized code
Posted on Intel Software Network
So, you want to start using Task Parallel Library Beta 1. You want to take advantage of the new features that will be available in .Net 4.0. Hold on! Are you familiar with lambda expressions?
So, you want to start using Task Parallel Library Beta 1. You want to take advantage of the new features that will be available in .Net 4.0. Hold on! Are you familiar with lambda expressions?
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Counting cores in .Net and Java
Posted on Intel Software Network
As C# and Visual Basic (in the .Net world) and Java are high level programming languages, most developers were not used to check for some hardware information. With multicore microprocessors and a task-oriented programming model, trying to take full advantage of parallel processing capabilities offered by modern microprocessors, this is changing.
As C# and Visual Basic (in the .Net world) and Java are high level programming languages, most developers were not used to check for some hardware information. With multicore microprocessors and a task-oriented programming model, trying to take full advantage of parallel processing capabilities offered by modern microprocessors, this is changing.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Measuring Parallelism: How Much Power Are You Wasting?
Posted on www.ddj.com/go-parallel
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?
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?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Invoking parallel tasks
Posted on Intel Software Network
In a recent post, Robert Chesebrough (Intel) talked about less focus on threads and more focus on tasks. I agree with him. I do believe that decomposing the job to be done into many tasks is the key to a successfully parallelized algorithm.
In a recent post, Robert Chesebrough (Intel) talked about less focus on threads and more focus on tasks. I agree with him. I do believe that decomposing the job to be done into many tasks is the key to a successfully parallelized algorithm.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Using Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading and multicore metrics
This video uses Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1 to benchmark threading metrics on a parallelized and multithreaded C# application. Watching this video you will find out that there is an easy to use utility to test multicore optimizations in any executable.
For more information about Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1, visit: http://software.intel.com/
The application also uses AForge.NET imaging framework. For more information about AForge.NET, visit: http://www.aforgenet.com
For more information about .Net Parallel Extensions, visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/default.aspx
For more information about Intel Concurrency Checker 2.1, visit: http://software.intel.com/
The application also uses AForge.NET imaging framework. For more information about AForge.NET, visit: http://www.aforgenet.com
For more information about .Net Parallel Extensions, visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/default.aspx
Parallel Extensions offer backward compatibility
Posted on Intel Software Network
Many developers are working with the features offered by C# 3.0 and .Net 3.5 to exploit multi-core CPUs. Parallel Extensions, which will be part of .Net 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 are entering Beta 1. Luckily, they will offer backward compatibility.
Parallel Extension will offer a lot of interesting features related to multi-core programming. So, developers face many questions.
Many developers are working with the features offered by C# 3.0 and .Net 3.5 to exploit multi-core CPUs. Parallel Extensions, which will be part of .Net 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 are entering Beta 1. Luckily, they will offer backward compatibility.
Parallel Extension will offer a lot of interesting features related to multi-core programming. So, developers face many questions.
Intel's Hyper-Threading Strikes Back
Posted on www.ddj.com/go-parallel
Intel's Hyper-Threading technology was introduced with the 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor. A few years later, the new Intel Core i7 processors offer Hyper-Threading again.
Intel's Hyper-Threading technology was introduced with the 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor. A few years later, the new Intel Core i7 processors offer Hyper-Threading again.
Novell's Mono brings SIMD support to C#
Posted on www.ddj.com/go-parallel
Parallel programming is not just about multi-threading and multi-core. There's also a lot of power in the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extended instruction set available in most modern microprocessors from Intel and AMD.
Parallel programming is not just about multi-threading and multi-core. There's also a lot of power in the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extended instruction set available in most modern microprocessors from Intel and AMD.
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