Matt Walker is an engineer at Pervasive Software, seeking a deeper understanding of concurrent programming techniques to improve the Pervasive DataRush framework for dataflow programming. He holds an MS in computer science from UT and received his BS in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University.
The multi-core buzz is everywhere. Pick up a newspaper and the local
electronics mega-store is advertising multi-core desktops and laptops to the
consumer. Interesting, but what does it mean to the everyday Java programmer?
Maybe nothing. If you live in the application server world writing EJB-based
applications your application server does most of the heavy lifting for you.
It handles concurrency just fine. But that doesn't cover all applications.
Multi-core technology will especially affect applications that must process
large amounts of data in a non-transactional (outside of ... (more)
Parallel programming in Java is becoming easier with tools such as the
fork/join framework, Pervasive DataRush, Terracotta, and Hadoop. This article
gives a high-level description of each approach, pointing you in the right
direction to begin writing parallel applications of your own.
Boiling the Ocean of Data
Companies today are swimming in data. The increasing ease with which data can
b... (more)
Matt Walker is an engineer at Pervasive Software, seeking a deeper understanding of concurrent programming techniques to improve the Pervasive DataRush framework for dataflow programming. He holds an MS in computer science from UT and received his BS in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University. 
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