Deep Dive into Futures and the Parallel Programming Library

To follow-up with my Parallel For Loops skill sprint last week (lots of good resources there), today I did a deep dive into the Parallel Programming Library (PPL) including Futures, Tasks and custom thread pools.

Here are the slides:

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And you can download my Tasks and Futures sample to see how to create, start, check and cancel both Tasks and Futures. Check out the C++ Parallel Examples to see how to use Futures and the PPL in C++.

Until the replay of my Skill Sprint is posted, you can watch this video from Allen Bauer covering the Parallel Programming Library Architecture from CodeRage 9.

http://youtu.be/4_PB5bnapXw

Be sure to sign up for and check out the other Skill Sprints.