Parallel Programming in Visual C++

Article
09/28/2012

Visual C++ provides the following technologies to help you create multi-threaded and parallel programs that take advantage of multiple cores and use the GPU for general purpose programming.

Title	Description
Auto-Parallelization and Auto-Vectorization	Compiler optimizations that speed up code.
Concurrency Runtime	Classes that simplify the writing of programs that use data parallelism or task parallelism.
C++ AMP (C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism)	Classes that enable the use of modern graphics processors for general purpose programming.
Multithreading Support for Older Code (Visual C++)	Older technologies that may be useful in older applications. For new apps, use the Concurrency Runtime or C++ AMP.
OpenMP in Visual C++	The Microsoft implementation of the OpenMP API.
Visual C++	This section of the documentation contains information about most of the features of Visual C++.