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.

Concurrent and parallel systems form the bedrock of modern computational infrastructures, enabling vast improvements in processing speed, efficiency and scalability. By orchestrating multiple ...

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Dr. Dobb’s has a review today that takes a look at the progress MS is making supporting developers struggling to add effective support for concurrency in their apps If you want to translate multicore ...

In this video from the C++ and Beyond 2011 conference, Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers and Herb Sutter discuss concurrency and parallelism. A Tip of the Hat goes to GPU Science for pointing us to ...

Parallelism used to be the domain of supercomputers working on weather simulations or plutonium decay. It is now part of the architecture of most SoCs. But just how efficient, effective and widespread ...

Concurrency adds complexity for which the industry lacks appropriate tools, and the problem has grown to the point where errors can creep into designs with no easy or consistent way to detect them. In ...