Microsoft is offering new Visual Studio VM images on its Azure cloud computing platform, some supporting the Dev Box service for cloud-based workstations customized for software development. Azure's ...

The new Concurrency Runtime supports Windows operating systems down to XP. In addition to that bit of news, this week's PDC features several sessions on parallel computing. On Monday, developers got a ...

Abstract: Nearest neighbor (NN) query in multi-dimensional space is one of the key problems for searching relevant remote sensing images from a large gallery. Facing the concurrent queries, we propose ...

The limits of single-thread performance and the demands of emerging applications have caused a shift toward increasingly concurrent and parallel software. For example, concurrency and parallelism ...

This practical tutorial introduces the features available in Haskell for writing parallel and concurrent programs. We first describe how to write semi-explicit parallel programs by using annotations ...