The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of memory ...

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 ...

Facebook Inc. has open-sourced a new tool for developers that helps them root out hard to detect bugs in concurrent programming. With the snappy name “RacerD,” it’s designed to examine software code ...

Behind games and entertainment, training and education and branded experience were most common use cases for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality. As Facebook explains, the ...

You will not get the automatic speedup for your software when you upgrade to a new computer, since the frequency scaling is virtually stopped, and you only get more ...

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 ...

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