With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

Java developers are getting more assistance in writing parallel programs for multi-core systems with another technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

HSA’s goal is to create a basic interface around industry-standard parallel programming tools like OpenCL, and to develop tools that are compatible across architectures and operating systems.

Fast forward to today -- Java is a mainstay of enterprise application development. Let's look at the history of Java and how it became a go-to programming language for developers everywhere. Humble ...

Four paths to parallelism with Java December 8, 2008 by Doug Black JDJ posted an article last week (thanks to Multicoreinfo.com for the pointer) to an article on parallelism in Java Parallel ...

"We believe that the Hadoop and Spark ecosystems are too complex to program and to deploy and have set out to bring Hazelcast's legendary simplicity to Big Data," Luck said in a statement. "We have ...

Computer scientists at the University of Illinois have developed extensions to Java intended to address the tough issue of parallel application development. And they are ready to do the same for C++.

Take your coding to the next level by learning advanced programming with generics. Here's how to use generic methods with type inference, type parameters, and wildcards in your Java programs.

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.