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

For concurrent programming used to manage external activities of varying criticalities, a real-time scheduler often relies on priorities assigned using some sort of rate-monotonic or ...

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 ...

I picked this book out of my large-ish stack of books waiting, mostly patiently, to be reviewed because I’m working on a research project these days that has to do with new models of parallel ...

Java Threads, Second Edition, Scott Oaks and Henry Wong (O’Reilly) Concurrent Programming in Java, Second Edition, Doug Lea (Addison-Wesley) Taming Java Threads, Allen Holub (Apress) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...