Writing correct concurrent programs is harder than writing sequential ones. This is because the set of potential risks and failure modes is larger - anything that can go wrong in a sequential program ...

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Presents an introduction to major operating systems and their components. Topics include processes, concurrency and synchronization, deadlock, processor allocation, memory management, I/O devices and ...

Understanding the intended and unintended interactions between hardware and software components is changing as architectures become more heterogeneous and interconnect topologies get more complicated.

The Java Concurrency Utilities are high-level concurrency types that facilitate threading tasks especially on multicore systems. Part 1 of this introduction featured java.util.concurrent‘s Executor ...

The evolution of processing architectures has solved many problems within a chip, but for each problem solved another one was created. Concurrency is one of those issues, and it has been getting much ...

Learn the core concepts of thread synchronization used to build multi-threaded .NET applications that enforce thread safety and avoid deadlocks. The C# programming language has provided support for ...