At the Intel Developer Forum '09 in San Francisco James Reinders talked about creating parallel applications in the mult-icore age.

Intel Parallel Studio

Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism

CPU Auxiliary Cores

Parallel computing is not an add-on or a library that we use. It goes much deeper into the system design and architecture. The quest has begon to discover a system model that's a design pattern for parallel processing. A collection of multi-core system architecture design pattern has begon at the Asynchronous Operations community site.