Kevin Irwin is a senior engineer at Pervasive Software, working on performance and concurrency within the Pervasive DataRush dataflow engine. With 15 years of industry experience, he previously worked at companies including Sun and IBM, developing high-performance, scalable enterprise software. Kevin holds an MCS and a BA in mathematics and computer science from Rice University.
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 parallel applications of your own. ...Dec. 15, 2008 05:00 PM EST Reads: 8,788 Replies: 1
