For example, the AVX-2 Intel instructions make use of 256-bit wide registers. Java integers are stored in 32 bits, so each vector register can hold eight Java integers (ints).

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

Computer scientists at the University of Illinois have developed extensions to Java intended to address the tough issue of parallel application development — and they are ready to do the same ...