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# Parallel Programming in Visual C++

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.

## Related Articles

|Title|Description|
|-----------|-----------------|
|[Auto-Parallelization and Auto-Vectorization](auto-parallelization-and-auto-vectorization.md)|Compiler optimizations that speed up code.|
|[Concurrency Runtime](concrt/concurrency-runtime.md)|Classes that simplify the writing of programs that use data parallelism or task parallelism.|
|[C++ AMP (C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism)](amp/cpp-amp-cpp-accelerated-massive-parallelism.md)|Classes that enable the use of modern graphics processors for general purpose programming.|
|[Multithreading Support for Older Code (Visual C++)](multithreading-support-for-older-code-visual-cpp.md)|Older technologies that may be useful in older applications. For new apps, use the Concurrency Runtime or C++ AMP.|
|[OpenMP](openmp/openmp-in-visual-cpp.md)|The Microsoft implementation of the OpenMP API.|
|[C++ in Visual Studio](../overview/visual-cpp-in-visual-studio.md)|This section of the documentation contains information about most of the features of Visual C++.|