Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework is a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, and coordination on parallel hardware unified by a common work scheduler. Parallel Extensions makes it easier for developers to write programs that scale to take advantage of parallel hardware by providing improved performance as the numbers of cores and processors increase without having to deal with many of the complexities of today’s concurrent programming models.
E' stata rilasciata una nuova CTP di questa libreria, scaricabile gratuitamente da qui. Ne approfitto per ricordare che già da un po' di tempo Microsoft ha riservato un'apposita sezione di MSDN al calcolo parallelo, denominata Parallel Computing Developer Center.