A team of researchers at the University of Illinois' Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) has developed a parallel implementation of Java.

Among other things, cloud applications will also benefit from parallel programming, so Scala could be used to optimize cloud applications as well. Scala is an open source language.

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.

Industry consortium HSA Foundation intends to bring native support for parallel acceleration in Java virtual machines, which would make it easier to tap into multiple processors like graphics ...

Hazelcast has roots planted deeply in the Java language and platform (its IMDG is written in Java), but the company has spread its support over the years, thanks in part to the efforts of its open ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A tool to ease the job of developing software for multicore processors in Deterministic Parallel Java was released by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...