At a very simple level, you could say that distributed computing is mostly about infrastructure, physical or virtualized, while concurrent programming is implemented in the application layer. Both are ...

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 ...

Asynchronous and concurrent programming can quickly get complicated. So we asked Microsoft MVP Jason Bock, who's speaking on this topic at the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Boston conference in June, ...

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.

The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Memory Models and Consistency in Concurrent Programming. References [1] Simulating Operational Memory Models Using Off-the-Shelf ...