At a very simple level, you could say that distributed computing is mostly about infrastructure, physical or virtualized, while concurrent programming is implemented in the application layer. Both are ...

Asynchronous and concurrent programming can quickly get complicated. So we asked Microsoft MVP Jason Bock, who's speaking on this topic at the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Boston conference in June, ...

1 Describe key models of computation and associated programming language paradigms based on them.; 2 Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of various programming languages for different ...

These can represent a concurrent unit of behavior, even I/O behavior. Thus, a server application could use structured concurrency to process thousands or millions of incoming requests at once.

It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the ...