Parallel Extensions for .NET developers, CTP available

Great news for all multi-core enthusiasts earlier today from the "blog press": Microsoft has announced a CTP of a paraller programming extension for .NET developers. I haven't yet tested the new extensions, but it sure would be great to have semi-automatic support for multi-threading. In the long run, all processors will be multi-core, but I'm afraid not all developers are able to take best advantage of the new processors if they need to manually code threading into their applications. Thus, these kind of extensions are really needed to drive the industry forward, one application at a time.

At the same time, Microsoft also published a new white paper about these topics, titled "The Manycore Shift".