Both concurrency and distributed programming have the same roots in early computer science. In those early days, problems were often modelled from an asynchronous perspective.

So what’s the difference? At a fundamental level, distributed computing and concurrent programming are simply descriptive terms that refer to ways of getting work done at runtime (as is parallel ...

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 ...

Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

The Linux Foundation has launched a new organization to maintain and further develop TLA+, the spec language for programming.

Ease the pain of concurrent programming with the Actor Model and Akka.NET.

TLA+ is a high-level programming language used to model complex, concurrent, and distributed programs and systems. It was created by Leslie Lamport and is backed by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft ...

Microsoft to businesses: No standalone concurrent programming toolkit for you Microsoft announced last week a new version of its Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) suite.