Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing ...

Concurrent and parallel systems form the bedrock of modern computational infrastructures, enabling vast improvements in processing speed, efficiency and scalability. By orchestrating multiple ...

A concurrent program is one that can execute multiple tasks simultaneously. Concurrency improves a program’s throughput, execution speed, and responsiveness. On a single processor system, concurrent ...