The Eclipse tools environment is being extended to support development of applications for large, parallel systems, an Eclipse official said at the EclipseCon 2005 conference on Tuesday. The Eclipse ...

The Eclipse Foundation and Los Alamos National Laboratory on Tuesday are formally announcing the Parallel Tools Platform Project to furnish better open-source software tools for parallel computers.

Computer scientists at the University of Illinois have developed extensions to Java intended to address the tough issue of parallel application development. And they are ready to do the same for C++.

With multi-core processors becoming a preferred method for building more powerful computers, Microsoft anticipates that a key trend for the future of application development will be accommodating ...