Distributed computing and concurrent programming in Java. Not surprisingly, Java provides a programming language, class libraries, ... Hadoop with MapReduce combines some of the best features of both ...

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 ...

The program thus becomes easier to debug, says Landman. JDK 8’s lambda capabilities are indeed a big change, and they should be seen as a benefit to parallel programming, says IDC analyst Al Hilwa.

Native support for HSA’s specifications in JVMs is expected with Java 9 in 2015, and parallel algorithms will be executed natively in JVMs without extra layers of code.

Java developers are getting more assistance in writing parallel programs for multi-core systems with another technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The university said ...