Rich Services Cloud Applications Require Parallel Programming Skills – Go Parallel

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The interest on Rich Services Cloud Applications is growing fast. Users want responsive and immersive interactions from any locations. Nowadays, you cannot think about a business application without mobility in mind. However, you cannot avoid creating a rich user experience (UX) in mobile devices whilst accessing services on the cloud. If you want to offer a really nice experience, you’ll have to use parallel programming skills everywhere.
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Downsizing Multicore Programming Skills to Take Advantage of Intel Atom – Go Parallel

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There is no doubt that Intel Atom is an attractive microprocessor. Netbooks, embedded systems, consumer electronic devices, and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) are using its different flavors. But can multicore programming skills be useful with these single-core CPUs?
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Process Monitor v2.7: A New Release to Watch Processes and Threads in Windows – Go Parallel

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Process Monitor is a very complete advanced monitoring tool that shows and logs real-time activity for the file system, the Registry, the running processes and their threads in Windows. Yesterday, the Windows Sysinternals team made the new version v2.7 of Process Monitor available for download.
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All CPU Meter: A Simple Windows Gadget to Monitor Cores – Go Parallel

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All CPU Meter is a very simple sidebar gadget available for Windows Vista and Windows 7. It allows developers and users to check the microprocessor’s usage and it shows an independent graph for each available logical core (hardware thread).
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TMonitor: Understanding What Happens With Each Hardware Thread – Go Parallel

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TMonitor, a new tool developed by the CPUID team, offers the possibility to understand what’s going on with each hardware thread (logical core) on some modern multicore microprocessors.
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Web Workers: A Draft Recommendation to Allow Parallelism in Scripts – Go Parallel

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Most modern Web pages run scripts. So far, there are many limitations to allow these scripts to take advantage of multicore microprocessors. However, Web Workers is a draft specification that defines an API to allow Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel.
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Balder: A Silverlight 3 Managed 3D Engine Optimized for Multicore – Go Parallel

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Silverlight 3 doesn’t offer native support for loading and rendering 3D models. However, Balder, an open source project, offers a very complete managed 3D engine for Silverlight 3. It achieved the necessary frame rate taking advantage of Silverlight’s threading capabilities.
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Parallel Loops Require In-Depth Concurrency Knowledge – Go Parallel

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The new Parallel Extensions offered by .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 present developers the opportunity to use the new parallel loops. Using them, it is easier to distribute tasks in many cores. However, you don’t have to forget about concurrency issues.
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New Parallel Debugging Windows in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Go Parallel

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Visual Studio 2010, still in Beta 1, offers two new debugging windows: Parallel Stacks and Parallel Tasks. Using them, it is easier to understand the new Parallel Extensions offered by .NET 4.
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Tasks Are Not Threads in .NET 4 Beta 1 – Go Parallel

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.Net Framework 4.0 with its Parallel Extensions, still in Beta 1, will add the possibility to work with tasks. It is very important to understand that tasks aren’t threads. Tasks run using threads. However, it doesn’t mean they replace threads.
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