So what’s the difference? At a fundamental level, distributed computing and concurrent programming are simply descriptive terms that refer to ways of getting work done at runtime (as is parallel ...

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.

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 ...

The future of server performance optimization will continue to revolve around efficient concurrency and distributed computing.

Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

Session Types and Concurrency in Programming Languages Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Session Types and Concurrency in Programming Languages.

Microsoft to businesses: No standalone concurrent programming toolkit for you Microsoft announced last week a new version of its Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) suite.

The Jolie programming language recently attracted the attention of developers on Hacker News. Jolie is a service-oriented language that encourages developers to model distributed software as ...