Simultaneous execution of branched (parallel) pipes - is it possible?

Bad title, but in essence, is it possible to branch a pipe (e.g. through a No-Op) and somehow configure the two downstream pipes (which are now parallel) to execute simultaneously rather than sequentially? I have a use case where I use RunProtocol to spawn analytics jobs before pushing the results through reporting components. I'd like to run all the analytics simultaneously to make the protocol execute faster (my server has plenty of cores to spawn multiple jobs), but it appears this is not possible. Any suggestions?