The data deluge
Businesses, governments and society are only starting to tap its vast potential Data Explosion: A guide to connecting the dots
Harness the power of your data Intel's James Reinders on parallelism: Part 1
Multicore processors are here to stay and the number of cores that we'll see packed onto a single chip is only going to increase. Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough. But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology companies and the federal government... 4 Technologies That Are Reshaping Business Intelligence
Next-generation BI is being formed by predictive analytics, real-time monitoring, in-memory processing, and SaaS. Is Multiprocessing Possible?
Federal dollars may help solve the riddle once and for all. Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal
Microsoft and Yahoo have now officially announced the search deal that has been rumored for long and finally confirmed... Four Paths to Java Parallelism
"Parallel programming in Java is becoming easier with tools such as the fork/join framework, Pervasive DataRush, Terracotta, and Hadoop. This article gives a high-level description of each approach, pointing you in the right direction to begin writing..." Multi-Threaded Development Joins Gates as Yesterday's Man
"...the validity of multi threading is under attack. Veteran programmer Knuth said in a recent interview that multi threading may not be up to the task and could fail. As such, he is "unhappy" with the current trend towards multi-core architectures." The X=X+1 Issue
A very clear explanation of why writing parallel apps is a challenge with procedural languages, versus declarative approaches. Although Java is procedural, our Java implementation of dataflow is avoids this pitfall. |
