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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 ...

50 years ago this year, Carl Hewitt invented the actor model, a computational model embracing non-determinism, which assumes all communication is asynchronous. Non-determinism enables concurrency, ...

Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. Traditionally, developers are been forced to use different solutions when building for the cloud and ...

As we have been describing here in detail, there is little end in sight to the train of exascale computing challenges ahead. The most prominent include building dense, energy-efficient systems that ...