Samples for Parallel programming with the. NET Framework

The. NET Framework 4 includes significant advancements for developers writing parallel and concurrent applications, includ ing Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), the Task Parallel Library (TPL), new Thread-safe collections, and a variety of new coordination and synchronization data structures.

This is sample includes example applications and library functionality that demonstrate, utilize, and augment this support (i T is not production quality). This sample is a single. zip containing a single Visual studio. sln file, which then contains multiple Visual Studio proje CTS that highlight key capabilities provided by the. NET Framework 4 and the parallel programming support it provides. Below is descriptions of the included examples.

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	Project Name: Acmepizza           Languages: C #, Visual basic           Description: This simple and somewhat silly application Demonstrates using concurrent collections with wpf.  the collections is wrapped with observable facades, such that M Ultiple threads may modify the collections concurrently, and those updates is safely propagated to UI Controls. &nbs p;
	Project Name: antisocial robots          Languages: c#           Description: demonstrates doing a computationally-intensive Operation many times per second, as a bunch of "robots" try to get as far away from each other as POSSIBLE.  &NB sp;
	Project Name: babynames           Languages: C #, Visual basic           Description: This is one of the first applications we ever BU Ilt to use Parallel linq.  Using LINQ and PLINQ, it queries a data set of baby name popularity information, sorts the Results, and displays the results in a simplistic WPF user interface.        &nb sp;
	Project Name: blendimages           Languages: c#           Description: A demo of very simple image manipulation using A parallel.fo R loop.  The application allows the user to load up both images and blends them together into a single, new Image.&nbs p;
	Project Name: Boids Languages: C # Description: An implementation of a classic flocking algorithm, util Izing WPF for pretty 3D visualization of the "Boids", whose next positions and velocities is computing in parallel.
	Project Name: Computepi Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: A Console application that estimate s the value of PI using a variety of both serial and parallel implementations, the latter done with both PLINQ and the Par Allel class.
	Project Name: diningphilosophers          Languages: C #, Visual basic          Description: A WPF application that Demonstrates the classic "Dining Philosophers" synchronization problem.  the application implements several solution s, including one based on asynchronous techniques using Tasks.
	Project Name: Editdistance Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: A Console application that uses Tasks to parallelize a dynamic programming problem, and that's computing the "edit distance" between both strings.
	Project Name: Gameoflife Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: This application provides an imple Mentation of Conway ' s Game of life, using the Parallel class to parallelize the processing of the cellular automata.
	Project Name: Imagecolorizer Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: This application manipulates a n Image by converting the majority of the image to grayscale, except for portions of the image containing user-selected Hu Es.
	Project Name: Linqraytracer Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: Based on Luke Hoban ' s LINQ impl Ementation of a ray tracer, this application parallelizes a computationally intensive LINQ query using PLINQ.
	Project Name: Mandelbrotfractals Languages: C #, + /CLI Description: This application provides an IM Plementation of the Classicmandelbrot fractal, parallelizing the processing of the fractal using the Parallel class.
	Project Name:  Morph Languages: C # Description: Implements A morphing algorithm between-images. Parallelization is done using the Parallel class.
	Project Name: Nbodysimulation Languages: C #, F # Description: Implements A classic n-body simulation us ing C # and WPF for the UI and using F # for the core computation. Parallelism is achieved using the Parallel class.
	Project Name: Nqueens Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: This application implements a Solutio N to the N-queens problem, using both LINQ and PLINQ.
	Project Name: Optionpricing Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: This Excel VSTO application UTI lizes PLINQ to Price Asian Options.
	Project Name: Parallelgrep Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: this console application Impleme NTS "grep" functionality across a file system using PLINQ.
	Project Name: plinqknobs          Languages: c#          Description: A Simple Console application that demonstrates some of the ways execution of a PLINQ query may controlled and configured.
	Project Name: raytracer           Languages: C #, Visual Basic, f#           Description: This Windows application provides an Animated, ray-traced bouncing ball.  sequential and parallel implementations are provided, as is a special parallel I Mplementation that colors the animated image based on which thread is used to calculate which regions.
	Project Name: Raytracer Languages: C # Description: This WPF application is a Reversi GA  Me. The AI algorithms is minimax with Alpha-beta pruning, and the parallel AI (light player) uses Tasks and CancellationToken s to achieve speedup via parallelism.
	Project Name: Shakespeareanmonkeys Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: This application impleme NTS and parallelizes a genetic algorithm for breeding monkeys able to speak text from Hamlet.
	Project Name: Spellchecker Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: This application implements and Parallelizes a spellchecking algorithm based on the same edit distance calculation in the edit distance sample.
	Project Name: Strassens Languages: C # Description: This application implements several algorithms fo R Performing and parallelizing matrix multiplication, including Thestrassen algorithm.
	Project Name: sudoku           Languages: C #, Visual basic           Description: This was a fun application, provides a full Sudoku E Xperience, including On-demand puzzle generation and solving.  unlike many Sudoku demos which parallelize the Solver, This implementation parallelizes the generator, using plinq.  It also demonstrates a use for speculative execution.< /td>
	Project Name: Visualizepartitioning Languages: C #, Visual Basic Description: This application demons Trates various approaches to partitioning as employed by both Parallel and PLINQ.
	Project Name: Parallelextensionsextras Languages: C # Description: This class library provides a plethora of I Nteresting and useful extensions to take advantage of and complement the functionality available in the. NET Framework 4 F or parallel programming.