manually parallelize software application, use Visual Studio

You are to select a software application and manually parallelize it. That is, take any application that is not written in an explicitly parallel fashion and transform it so that it executes as efficiently as possible on a particular parallel computer. The software application can be whatever you like but you will obviously need access to its source code. It can for example be an open source application or an application that you have developed yourself, or perhaps one from your workplace. To be amenable to parallelization it will need to be relatively computationally intensive, i.e. it will need to perform sufficient computation so that parallelizing that computation will potentially produce a noticeable difference in perceived execution time. For example, a word processing application would probably not be a good candidate as such applications are already normally adequately responsive to user interaction. Note, that some applications are more amenable to parallelization than others. It is not expected that a perfect linear speedup will be achieved for all applications – simply that your parallelization achieves as much performance improvement as is available.