Tag Archives: PARSEC

One of the challenges of parallel programming is synchronizing concurrent access to shared memory. Today, programmers use locks for synchronization, but locks have many pitfalls that make them difficult to use for building large, robust, parallel applications. In the past … Continue reading →

What will people do with their computers in five, ten or twenty years? How will computers need to change to support these future usage models? And finally, how the heck are we going to program these things? These are the … Continue reading →