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 ...

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

One of the hardest tricks for any programmer to do is to master concurrent programming. Facebook's new tool, RacerD, goes a long way to helping developers spot concurrency errors.

Jason Tatton, formerly an algorithmic trader at JP Morgan, has built a new programming language called Concurnas that he says can help the financial services industry tackle common problems with ...

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 ...

Subject: Why a Florida company”s attempt to take over Concurrent Computer fell through In March, rumors rippled through the computer industry that Harris Computer Systems of Melbourne, Fla. was ...