Online Resources

Here is a list of resources collected by myself and colleagues:

• Microsoft

  • Synchronization reference on the MSDN Library

  • Microsoft Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 3.5 June 08 Download (Older: Dec 07)

• Intel

  • Thread Building Blocks helper library

  • Sample code that detects the processors architecture and number of cores

  • Intel's community - Multicore programming

• Technologies

  • NVIDIA's Tesla GPU and CUDA API

• Community

  • Parallel Computing on Wikipedia

  • NParallel by leafwiz, a small parallel execution library. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

  • Doug Lea's website is a good resource for Java developers.

  • An interesting article about OpenMP Traps. This just demonstrates how far we are from a true parallel programming language.

• Forums

  • Microsoft Forum for Parallel Computing

  • Microsoft Forum for .Net Parallel Extensions

  • Intel's Forum of Threading on Intel� Parallel Architectures

• Tutorials

  • Livemore Computing has a simple tutorial going over the basic concepts of Parallel Computing