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.

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 ...

Both concurrency and distributed programming have the same roots in early computer science. In those early days, problems were often modelled from an asynchronous perspective.

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 ...

Swift 6 programming language focuses on concurrency, Linux and Windows In addition to language enhancements, the programming language brings improvements for connecting platforms beyond Apple's ...

We will also discuss how to debug and check concurrent programs, which may give your different behaviors at different executions. REQUIRED TEXT: Herlihy and Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor ...

Memory Models and Consistency in Concurrent Programming Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Memory Models and Consistency in Concurrent Programming.

The actor model facilitates concurrent programming by allowing a safer mechanism for message-passing between processes (or actors). Implementations of this model vary between languages and frameworks.