PROCESSES and threads have one goal: Getting a computer to do more than one thing at a time. To do that, the processor (or processors) must switch smoothly among several tasks, which requires ...

You are probably accustomed to the idea that your smartphone can run more than one app at a time. Even if you are only used to seeing just one app in the foreground, you will have noticed that some ...

The title probably doesn't make a lot of sense, so let me lay out what I'm doing. I'm in the early stages of creating a framework for generating test data for a specific problem domain. One of the ...

Virtual threads introduce an abstraction layer between operating-system processes and application-level concurrency. Said differently, virtual threads can be used to schedule tasks that the Java ...

I've been playing around with the SetWindowsHookEx function, which uses the dwThreadId parameter to limit the hook to a specific thread. I have been successful in doing this when retrieving the thread ...

In June 2008, Los Alamos National Lab announced the achievement of a numerical goal to which computational scientists have aspired for years—its newest Linux-powered supercomputer, named Roadrunner, ...

A row of cutting mills at a Proto Labs manufacturing facility in the U.S. Source: Proto Labs One of the hottest terms to arise in manufacturing lately is the term “digital thread.” Essentially, the ...