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The fine folks over at LinuxHPC.org are carrying news this week that JPPF 1.0.1 has been released. JPPF is a “grid computing toolkit” for Java. Check out JPPF.org for more info.

The Vector API gives Java developers everything they need to tap into CPU-level performance gains for numerically intensive operations. If there is one thing you can describe as an obsession for both ...

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In-memory data grid (IMDG) specialist Hazelcast Inc. yesterday launched a new distributed processing engine for Big Data streams. The open-source, Apache 2-licenced Hazelcast Jet is designed to ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Virtual machines (VMs) move into the massively parallel processing realm with Azul's Network Attached Processing (NAP) appliances. The latest crop is based on Azul's new chip, with 48 64-bit ...

Marking a watershed moment for Java programmers, Oracle today is releasing JDK (Java Development Kit) 8, accommodating lambda expressions and representing a shift in how developers approach the ...