Axum Published! Tutorial: Building your first Axum application

Not familiar with Axum? Here's a C9 interview with the Axum team to refresh your memory (it's a domain specific language for concurrent programming, formerly known as "Maestro", developed by the Parallel Computing Platform team).

Here, Axum PM Josh Phillips walks us through building a simple Axum application in just over 5 minutes. Josh builds a simple “math library” on agents and shows how easy it is with Axum to focus on your code and get parallelism and safety implicitly.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Building-your-first-Axum-application/

Maestro: A Managed Domain Specific Language For Concurrent Programming

Josh Phillips(PM), Niklas Gustafsson(Architect), and Artur Laksberg(Developer) of the Parallel Computing Platform Team spend some time with me to discuss a managed (.NET-based) DSL (Domain Specific Language) for concurrent programming, Maestro. Maestro incorporates well-entrenched language patterns (imperative, OO, C style syntax, etc) and language constructs (channels, agents, domains) in a compelling way to make concurrent composition more accessible and familiar to the legions of sequential code composers.

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Maestro-A-Managed-Domain-Specific-Language-For-Concurrent-Programming/

Microsoft Axum

A .NET language for safe, scalable and productive parallel programming through isolation, actors and message-passing.

Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. It’s a language that builds upon the architecture of the web and the principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects. Programmer's Guide: Use this simple and easy to follow programmer's guide to learn how to create safe, scalable, and responsive applications with the Axum language. Language Specification: A detailed specification of the Axum language.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 7; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CFE70D5D-37AA-4C4C-8EEB-D4576C41BAA2&displaylang=en