Scala is not among the most popular programming languages but soon this could change. With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to ...

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In Part 2 of this three-part series on dataflow programming with the Task Parallel Library, Eric Vogel shows you how to create a Windows 8 application that uses a composite parallel data flow. In Part ...

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In 2011 even low-end laptops come with two cores and, at the high end, eight and even 16 cores aren't uncommon. Similarly, you would be hard-pressed to find a server that didn't have at least support ...

Joe Duffy has posted links to two new articles in the October issue of MSDN Magazine which highlight two components of Microsoft’s ParallelFX project. The first introduces PLINQ, a data-parallel ...

Microsoft has provided support for parallel programming in .Net Framework to leverage the benefits of multi core systems. In this post, I will present a discussion on the support for Parallel ...

Catering to the growing need for parallel programming, Microsoft is implementing capabilities for this functionality in both the existing Visual Studio 2008 development platform and its planned ...

I've been covering various scientific programs the past few months, but sometimes it's hard to find a package that does what you need. In those cases, you need to go ahead and write your own code.