An intersting video showing how an application's performance increases when optimized for parallel execution. It's a book's promotion, but it is very instructive.

"...These slides, based on a talk we gave at Intel in Aug 16, 2007, describe why handhelds will eclipse laptops and why browsers will need to be parallel for this to happen. We also give some preliminary results from our research into building a parallel browser..."

Will a new feature make C the answer to the parallel programmer's dreams?

C, C#, Erlang, and more A list of book releases compiled by Dr. Dobb's to keep you up-to-date on parallel programming and multicore technology.

NVIDIA CUDA is a general purpose parallel computing architecture that leverages the parallel compute engine in NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to solve many complex computational problems in a fraction of the time required on a CPU.

PPSS is a shell script that processes files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make full use of current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core. It will also use hyper threading if specified. Please note that you can start any number of processes in parallel if you like.

Microsoft's Craig Mundie is right. Parallel computing is going to change everything about computing, but his timing is off. Thanks to Linux, it's been here for years.

A new book from Packt on Threaded Programming that acts as a guide to building scalable, high performance applications using parallel programming with C# has been published. Written by Gastón C. Hillar, C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide will help users develop applications that run several tasks, and manage parallelized processes and threads.

The Parallel Realities website offers a collection of simple, mostly SDL based action games. They're all fairly lightweight and might make good boredom beaters on a less powerful machine, or failing that, a handy distraction while waiting for something to complete in the background.