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Parallel programming, leveraging multicore processor, or even distributed machines, is an actual topic. Some of the links I read/collected about this topic.

Patterns for Parallel Programming: Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with the .NET Framework 4
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=19222

ztellman’s calx at master – GitHub
https://github.com/ztellman/calx
Calx is an idiomatic wrapper for OpenCL, which is an abstraction layer for parallel computation.

Workshop on Parallelism, and a “breakthrough” in combinatorial geometry
http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/workshop-on-parallelism-and.html

Back to (Parallel) Basics: Don’t Block Your Threads, Make Async I/O Work For You
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BackToParallelBasicsDontBlockYourThreadsMakeAsyncIOWorkForYou.aspx

The Renaissance Virtual Machine
http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr/rvm-open-source-release/

smarr’s RoarVM at master – GitHub
https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM
RoarVM, formerly known as the Renaissance Virtual Machine (RVM) is developed as part of a IBM Research project to investigate programming paradigms and languages for manycore systems of the future.

YouTube – Clojure Demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCYVfApPUc&feature=share

Thinking about massively parallel Smalltalk
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/537

InfoQ: Functional Approaches To Parallelism and Concurrency
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Functional-Approaches-To-Parallelism

Threading in C# – Free E-book
http://www.albahari.com/threading/
C# supports parallel execution of code through multithreading. A thread is an independent execution path, able to run simultaneously with other threads.

Helios: Heterogeneous Multiprocessing with Satellite Kernels
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=81154

Threading in C# – Part 5 – Parallel Programming
http://www.albahari.com/threading/part5.aspx
In this section, we cover the multithreading APIs new to Framework 4.0 for leveraging multicore processors:These APIs are collectively known (loosely) as PFX (Parallel Framework).

CRDTs: Consistency without concurrency control
http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/RR-6956.pdf

The Weekly Source Code 56 – Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheWeeklySourceCode56VisualStudio2010AndNETFramework4TrainingKitCodeContractsParallelFrameworkAndCOMInterop.aspx

J-Machine Project Page
http://cva.stanford.edu/projects/j-machine/
The J-Machine is a fine grained concurrent computer designed by the MIT Concurrent VLSI Architecture group (now located at Stanford University) in conjunction with Intel Corporation.

Parallel Programming with Hints
http://bartoszmilewski.com/2010/05/11/parallel-programming-with-hints/
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to write sequential programs and let the compiler or the runtime automatically find opportunities for parallel execution?

Beyond Locks and Messages: The Future of Concurrent Programming
http://bartoszmilewski.com/2010/08/02/beyond-locks-and-messages-the-future-of-concurrent-programming/

Parallelism in .NET – Part 18, Task Continuations with Multiple Tasks
http://reedcopsey.com/2010/07/19/parallelism-in-net-part-18-task-continuations-with-multiple-tasks/

InfoQ: Multicore Programming in Haskell
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Multicore-Programming-in-Haskell

Microsoft Biology Foundation 1.0 Released
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2010/07/12/10037496.aspx

Designing Parallel Algorithms: Part 1
http://drdobbs.com/go-parallel/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223100878

Dr.Dobb’s Go Parallel
http://drdobbs.com/go-parallel/

DataAllure: Hadoop for DNA sequence analysis
http://blog.dataallure.com/2010/04/hadoop-for-dna-sequence-analysis.html

A Pattern Language for Parallel Programming
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Pattern-Language-Parallel-Programming
Ralph Johnson presents a pattern language that he and his colleagues are working on in an attempt to solve the hard issues of parallel programming through a set of design patterns: Structural Patterns, Computational Patterns, Parallel Algorithm Strategy Patterns, Implementation Strategy Patterns, and Concurrent Execution Patterns.

Back to (Parallel) Basics: Do you really want to do that? or Why doesn’t the new Parallel.For support BigInteger?
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BackToParallelBasicsDoYouReallyWantToDoThatOrWhyDoesntTheNewParallelForSupportBigInteger.aspx

InfoQ: Billy Newport Discusses Parallel Programming in Java
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/billy-newport-parallel

Multi-core Parallelization in Clojure – a Case Study
http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/multicore-parallelization-in-clojure-a-case-study

Patterns of Parallel Programming: A Tutorial on Fundamental Patterns and Practices for Parallelism
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/2009/Patterns-of-Parallel-Programming

The Design of a Task Parallel Library
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/77368/TheDesignOfATaskParallelLibrary(oopsla2009).pdf

My Links
http://delicious.com/ajlopez/parallel

Keep tuned!

Angel “Java” Lopez
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