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 ...

Ever since the One Microsoft reorg, the Redmondians have had an affinity for codenames and concepts that include the word "One." OneNet may be new to some, though it seemingly has been in development ...

Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on ...

The DHPCC++19 conference has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction with the IWOCL event, the Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++ event takes place May 13, 2019 in Boston. This ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Traditionally, developers are been forced to use different solutions when building for the cloud and ...

In this video from the 2017 Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, Galen Shipman from LANL presents: The Legion Programming Model. “Developed by Stanford University, Legion is a ...

Overview: Functional programming prevents unintended data changes, reducing errors in large systems.Pure functions improve testing accuracy because outputs depe ...

As we have been describing here in detail, there is little end in sight to the train of exascale computing challenges ahead. The most prominent include building dense, energy-efficient systems that ...