A team of researchers at the University of Illinois' Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) has developed a parallel implementation of Java.

This approach makes parallel programming simple and intuitive, efficient, and compatible with existing programs and tools. Ateji PX is compatible with the Java language and is integrated with the ...

The authors compare different methods to compute the variance of a large data set using an imperative style, The fork/join framework and the new Streams API in Java 8 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A tool to ease the job of developing software for multicore processors in Deterministic Parallel Java was released by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...

One size does not fit all, and it never will. Parallel programming looks to level the playing field by leveraging multicore hardware.

Among other things, cloud applications will also benefit from parallel programming, so Scala could be used to optimize cloud applications as well. Scala is an open source language.

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...

Intel and Sun say that parallel programming is about to go mainstream.

Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3.