Technical Terms Memory Model: A formal specification delineating the ordering and visibility of operations on memory, particularly in a concurrent computing environment.

Material on files, signals, semaphores, threads and client-server communication also has been updated and enhanced. The book provides programming exercises for many fundamental concepts in process ...

Advanced study in models of computation, programming languages and algorithms with a specific focus on concurrent programming. The course includes models of computation, programming language paradigms ...

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.

I just recently finished reading Introduction to Concurrency in Programming Languages, one of the entries in CRC’s incredibly active Computational Science Series (“Incredibly active?” Yes: the series ...

We will start with synchronization primitives, mutual exclusion, and consensus, and talk about different programming models such as multi-threading, locking, and transactional memory. We will also ...

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 ...

Java programs are multithreaded, whether you like it or not. This comparative review of six Java thread programming books will help you decide which books are the best read for learning the Java ...

From new features like async return types and advice on when to use the latest structures, here's Microsoft MVP Jason Bock's top tips for developers currently working with concurrent and asynchronous ...