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 ...

Concurnas is a new open source JVM programming language designed for building concurrent and distributed systems. Concurnas is a statically typed language with object oriented, functional, and ...

Technical Terms Memory Model: A formal specification delineating the ordering and visibility of operations on memory, particularly in a concurrent computing environment.

Concurnas founder says his language will help traders work more easily with concurrent computing and offer a Python-like syntax with Java-scale performance.

On August 20, Intel rolled out new parallel-processing tools that support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment that is expected to become a central component of Redmond's next-generation ...

In the future, Duffy expects to see a return of distributed programming with increasingly fine-grained distributed systems that will make systems look more and more like classic concurrent systems.