Parallel programming, which empowers super-computing calculations to be made simultaneously, is much harder, but doable. Concurrent computing, where multiple calculations are made within ...

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Instead, the Parallel Extensions to the .Net Framework (and its concurrency runtime) seems to be Microsoft's developer solution of choice.

Intel and Sun say that parallel programming is about to go mainstream.

Microsoft previously has touted its Concurrency Runtime technology for Visual Studio 2010 as a boost for multicore programming. It offers more control over application resources.