REQUIRED TEXT: Herlihy and Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Revised First Edition, Elsevier, 2012. COURSE COORDINATOR: Prof. Hai Zhou PREREQUISITE: COMP_SCI 110 or COMP_SCI 111. SCHEDULE ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...

For speed, you have to do concurrent programming for multicores. This course will teach you how to do it effectively. We will start with synchronization primitives, mutual exclusion, and consensus, ...

Douglas Eadline posted a bit of an introspective piece via his HPC column at Linux Magazine. Put simply, he lays out what may become a growing chasm between effective multiprocessor programming ...