In Part 2 of this three-part series on dataflow programming with the Task Parallel Library, Eric Vogel shows you how to create a Windows 8 application that uses a composite parallel data flow. In Part ...

The producer-consumer pattern is one of the most widely used patterns in parallel programming. It’s typically used to isolate work that needs to be processed from the actual processing of the work.

As Web and mobile applications face the challenge of quickly analyzing huge volumes of live data, developers are turning to data-parallel computing techniques to tackle these daunting computations.