Parallel Computing Initiative

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Parallel Computing Initiative

To make it simpler for both native and managed code developers to safely and productively build robust, scalable and responsive applications, Microsoft established the Parallel Computing Initiative that encompasses the vision, strategy, and innovative technologies for delivering natural and immersive personal computing experiences that harness the computing power of manycore architectures. Microsoft’s goal is to simplify parallel programming by taking a holistic approach and providing solutions which span from local to distributed computing and from task concurrency to data parallelism. Microsoft plans to deliver a solution-stack consisting of OS resource management, a concurrency runtime, programming models, language extensions, libraries, and tools.

Microsoft’s goal is to increase productivity by encapsulating complexity, so developers can focus on solving business problems.

Parallel Computing Platform

For both native and managed developers, Microsoft plans to deliver a comprehensive and integrated solution-stack including a concurrency runtime, programming models, language extensions, libraries and tools that will make it simpler for developers to write correct, scalable and responsive parallel applications.

High Performance Computing

High Performance Computing has become a fundamental enabler of innovation by providing dedicated compute resources to solve complex simulations and long-running calculations.

Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Its goals are to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software, and invent novel computing technologies. Microsoft Research also collaborates openly with colleges and universities worldwide to broadly advance the field of computer science.

Microsoft Robotics

Microsoft Robotics products and services enable academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.

Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a unified framework for rapidly building service-oriented applications that makes it easy to build and consume secure, reliable, and transacted Web services. WCF services can speak standard WS-* protocols when sending and receiving messages for maximum interoperability. WCF also supports more web-centric architectural designs such as Representational State Transfer (REST), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Plain Old XML (POX) encoding.

Windows Workflow Foundation

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) provides a common framework that enables developers to express processes in a way that makes sense to their developers and business. Out-of-the-box, WF 4.0 provides flow controls to model sequential workflows, state machines, flow charts, and rules-driven workflows. WF provides persistence and tracking mechanisms needed to create durable, long-running applications and services. When coupled with WCF, WF 4.0 adds message correlation and the ability to flow transactions to model more complex communication patterns. WF also provides a rehostable, custom authoring experience to allow for creation and modification of workflows without the need of Visual Studio at runtime.