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. 
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. ...Dec. 15, 2008 05:00 PM EST Reads: 8,646 Replies: 1
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 wri...
