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This is valid for both hardware manufacturers as well as for software developers, and Microsoft plans to focus on both groups come the Professional Developers Conference 2008 and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008 in Los Angeles at the end of October, respectively at the start of November. Of course that, for the Redmond company, parallel computing is not just about Windows, or Windows 7 in particular, but also about the solutions delivered on top of its proprietary platform in order to permit developers to built parallel applications.

Via one of the sessions at WinHEC, Microsoft is promising to get involved in the manycore shift to the point where it will make “parallel computing personal. “In the era of multicore processors, parallel programming is key to unlocking the power of multiple CPUs that enable immersive new end-user experiences that are impossible on today's PCs,” Microsoft revealed, acknowledging that the transition is already happening. “We'll highlight efforts in Visual Studio and Windows as examples of how Microsoft is addressing the problems that concurrency introduces through rich support in future tools and operating systems for threading, synchronization, scheduling, and resource management. These efforts enable software developers to more effectively exploit the proliferation of cores in modern processor designs,” the company added.

But ahead of WinHEC 2008, Microsoft will reveal its parallel efforts at PDC 2008. The Redmond giant has no less than nine sessions lined up on parallelism, but the fact is that the discussion related to parallel computing will start ahead of the conference. In the video embedded at the bottom of this article, Stephen Toub, a Senior Program Manager Lead on the Parallel Computing Platform, talks about the events which will precede PDC 2008. One of the two symposia planned for PDC2008 is set up to deliver “a detailed look at how multi-core architectures will unleash computing power and enable innovation”.

“The manycore shift provides exciting opportunities for developers to create innovative natural and immersive computing experiences that harness the performance power of multi- and manycore processors. Multi- and manycore architectures have immediate applications in games, digital media, computer-aided-design, business intelligence, data mining and virtual worlds,” Microsoft revealed.