You might remember that one of the new features that came in with Visual Studio last year was C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP). Microsoft has now published the C++ AMP specification (PDF) to encourage others to implement it on any platform. It’s interesting to see the spec pushed out like this, before it’s even [...]
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Yesterday, I posted part one of our two-part interview with Stephen Toub, Principal Architect on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft. In this second part, he tells us about Async and TPL Dataflow, the public reaction to them, and how easy language extensions can make it for developers to parallel program. Softtalkblog: Async and [...]
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Stephen Toub is Principal Architect on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft. His team develops runtimes, libraries, compilers, and tools that enable developers to more easily and better parallelise their software. I caught up with him by email for a chat about .NET, Async and The Task Parallel Library Dataflow (TPL Dataflow), and how [...]
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