DPJ-ported parallel code can co-exist with ordinary Java code within the same application, so that programs can be incrementally ported to DPJ, the UPCRC said.

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.

With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

Intel and Sun say that parallel programming is about to go mainstream.

Native support for HSA’s specifications in JVMs is expected with Java 9 in 2015, and parallel algorithms will be executed natively in JVMs without extra layers of code. The JVM will recognize ...

In-memory data grid specialist Hazelcast launched a new distributed processing engine for data streams, targeting 'the intersect of Big Data programmers and Java programmers.' ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.