Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++

Design Patterns for Decomposition and Coordination on Multicore Architectures

The patterns & practices group is writing a new guide that will introduce Visual C++ programmers to patterns for including parallelism in their applications. Examples of these patterns are parallel loops, parallel tasks and data aggregation with map-reduce. Each pattern has its own chapter. Each chapter includes a description of the problem, an example of where the pattern is applicable, and code that implements the solution. On this site you will find; a preliminary draft of the book, the accompanying code samples and answers to the end of chapter questions.

System Requirements

You will need Visual C++ and at least Visual C++ 2010 Express to run the samples. However, you will need Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate  to use some the parallel diagnostic tools such as the Concurrency Visualizer.