Since the launch of .NET 4.0 a new term that has got into the limelight is parallel computing. Does parallel computing provide us some benefits or is it just another concept or feature? Further is .NET really going to use it in applications? Further is parallel computing different from parallel programming? Kindly throw some light on t...
Ever since Microsoft introduced sql-server version code-named "Madison" the massively parallel processing (MPP) has got into picture. What exactly is it and how does sql-server is going to benefit from it ? Further is massively parallel processing (MPP) related to parallel computing ? I read about Madison here and about parallel compu...
My program uses sockets, what Parallel computing APIs could I use that would help me without obligating me to go from sockets to anything else? When we are on a cluster with a special, non-socket infrastructure system this API would emulate something like sockets but using that infrastructure (so programs perform much faster than on soc...