Parallel Extensions to the .Net Framework

Recently there has been quite an extensive progress in hardware advancements. Your computer speed is not just doubled than what was couple years ago, but have grown manifold. The main reason behind this, is the multicore processor technology. Before this technology, more silicon means faster processors, but now it means more and more cores. Because of the topic, we will not be discussing multi computer setup, but instead just be talking about multi core processors.

Most of the developers, these days, are running atleast a dual core processor machine. Those days are not far, when no one would be interested in buying single core machines, and it will be a standard to have octa core machines. Inspite of these advances, if you see around you wont find many software applications that takes advantage of multiple cores. The best system, that would exploit these improvements, would execute the code faster and scales better as the number cores in the machine increases. There is an initiative at Microsoft called the Parallel Computing Initiative, which encompasses dealing with this issue amongst many others in a wider scope. I came across this wonderful article about Parallel computing using ASP.net in the Visual Systems Journal, that I thought of writing an article myself.

But because I am working on the ASP.Net tutorial at the moment I do not want to divert my attention from the curren project, and hence would just provide you with the link on the article. Follow through this link to get to the article. Ellaborate article with simplified examples would come out soon on here, but till then keep visiting!

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