We will also discuss how to debug and check concurrent programs, which may give your different behaviors at different executions. REQUIRED TEXT: Herlihy and Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor ...

One of the hardest tricks for any programmer to do is to master concurrent programming. Facebook's new tool, RacerD, goes a long way to helping developers spot concurrency errors.

Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of ...

We will also discuss how to debug and check concurrent programs, which may give your different behaviors at different executions. REQUIRED TEXT: Herlihy and Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor ...

It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the ...