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I'm on PCP (and you can be too)

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No, not that PCP.  The PCP to which I refer is the Parallel Computing Platform, a fairly new organization within Developer Division that is working to unlock new experiences for PC users by making it much, much easier for developers to build applications that leverage the opportunities for parallelism afforded by new multi-core CPUs.  Read more on the coming shift to parallel computing and what it means for developers in this Microsoft white paper and Herb Sutter's The Free Lunch is Over article from Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Yes, this means I've moved on from the Visual C++ team.  In my new role I'll be serving as Product Unit Manager for the Parallel Developer Tools team within the PCP organization.  My team is focused on the tooling developers need to build highly parallel software, such as debuggers, profilers, analysis, and designers.

So how can you be on PCP? You can start by visiting our Parallel Computing MSDN dev center.  If you're really ambitious, you can start playing with our Parallel Extensions to .NET 3.5 CTP.  Of course, there's more where that came from, and in the coming months you can expect to see things like parallel development libraries and tools for both native and managed code developers.

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  • Anonymous
    December 19, 2007
    Congratulations Steve! Best wishes! Based on your great success on the VC++ team, I look forward to seeing great things on Parallel Computing in the neart future. Go Steve! Go Microsoft! -Lino

  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2007
    Congrats Steve! Sounds like an exciting place to be with a lot in store for the future. Now, just keep the blog posts coming!  :)

  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2007
    Really? I can be on the team? ;P

  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2007
    Lino and Steve: Thanks for the kind wishes! Now I'll need to recruit you guys as MVPs.  :) Honey: You are on the team.  :)

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    January 21, 2008
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    January 23, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2008
    Welcome to the fortieth issue of Community Convergence. This week we have two new releases of note: We

  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2008
    Hey Steve, what happened with my last post? Please check the spam filter. André