Simple Parallel Development with the Asynchronous Agents Library
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Nick Wienholt - 07/13/2009
By adopting a messaging based approach to task parallelism, the Asynchronous Agents Library provides a simple model for concurrent programming that avoids the complexity of memory locks.

Parallel Lint
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Andrey Karpov - 06/15/2009
Understand the new direction in development of static code analyzers - verification of parallel programs. The article reviews several static analyzers which can claim to be called "Parallel Lint".

Native Parallel Programming for Visual C++ with the Parallel Processing Library
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Nick Wienholt - 05/11/2009
Visual C++ 10.0's new Parallel Pattern Library supplies methods to execute multiple processing tasks, across available processing resources, eliminating the headache of manually allocating task execution.

Tip: Lock Leveling
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Wong Shao Voon - 03/18/2009
Use Lock Leveling to Prevent Multi-threading Deadlocks

Parallel Programming in Visual C++ 2010 CTP
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Marc Gregoire - 10/31/2008
The CTP build of Visual C++ 2010 includes a new library to help you write native parallel code.

Handling Multiple Processors in Your Code Using RapidMind
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Ejaz Anwer - 07/31/2007
Multicore processors bring new challenges. See a solution for gaining the ability to scale to the increasing number and types of processor cores.

[Updated] A Simple Thread Pooling Approach
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Raghupathy Srinivasan - 01/26/2007
Learn about a simple mechanism to achieve thread pooling by using Windows messages.

Simplified One-Time Initialization in Windows Vista
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Nick Wienholt - 01/05/2007
With the rapid increase in parallel computing, correct threading, and synchronization are vitally important to programmers building scalable, high-performance solutions. Explore the new one-time object initialization APIs in Vista from a C++ programmer's perspective.

Easy Multithreading in ATL Windows Applications
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Konstantin Go - 08/25/2006
Add one header file to your *.vcproj, insert a few lines of code into your class header, and you'll never again worry about the asynchronous routines in your ATL GUI application.

Multi-Threaded Message Processor
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Sathya Narayana Panduranga - 02/23/2006
Learn about a framework for concurrent message processing for disconnected, multi-threaded applications.

[Updated] Walking the Callstack
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Jochen Kalmbach - 08/05/2005
Learn about a documented and most portable way to walk a callstack for any thread (current, other, and remote). It has an abstraction layer, so the calling app does not need to know the internals.

[Updated] The K.I.S.S. Approach to I/O Completion Ports
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Robert Simpson - 10/18/2004
I/O completion ports are the holy grail of performance. This article provides an extremely lightweight and open framework for easily implementing IOCP's in your application(s).

Windows Thread Pooling
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PlugwareSolutionsLtd - 04/28/2004
Thread pooling describes a technique by which threads of execution are managed and to which work is distributed. Additional semantics such as concurrency control may also be defined. Thread pooling is a nice way to: Manage complexity Make your applications scale Introduce new code while minimizing risk

Working with CRITICAL_SECTION
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Dr. Sai - 04/29/2003
An insight into the inner workings of CRITICAL_SECTION and thread priorities.

Template Thread Library
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Emad Barsoum - 02/27/2003
Review demonstrations of two non-MFC thread classes.

Idle Loop Processing
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Ahmed Ceder - 09/23/2002
Multi-threading contains overhead that is not always needed. This article focuses on a simple idle processing technique using the PeekMessage and PumpMessage functions.

Creating an Object-Oriented Wrapper to Windows Threads
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Sathya Narayana Panduranga - 04/10/2001
Great for creating a simple threading class without the inherit complexities of the CWinThread class