Aater Suleman at the Future Chips blog looks at how to choose the best task size at run-time for parallel programming. He analyzes the trade-offs and explains some recent advances in work-queues that ...
There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL and asynchronous and parallel programming in general, so Jeremy Clark is on a mission to inform developers on how to use everything properly.
Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on ...