With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

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. The JVM will recognize ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have released DPJizer, a tool geared for parallel programming Java developers are getting more assistance in writing parallel programs ...

Both the Java language itself and the available Java libraries support concurrent programming via APIs such as those in the java.util.Concurrent package. If you really want to dig into how to use JVM ...

The group is one of several that top computer makers have funded to help create new programming models and tools for next-generation multicore systems. Research in parallel systems is driving work on ...

"We believe that the Hadoop and Spark ecosystems are too complex to program and to deploy and have set out to bring Hazelcast's legendary simplicity to Big Data," Luck said in a statement. "We have ...

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have released DPJizer, a tool geared for parallel programming Java developers are getting more assistance in writing parallel programs ...