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JPPF 2.4 : executor batch modes, performance, memory footprint, and more

JPPF enables applications with large processing power requirements to be run on any number of computers, in order to dramatically reduce their processing time.

0 replies - 1657 views - 12/27/10 by Laurent Cohen in Announcements

ZooKeeper Primer

Distributed collaborative applications involve a set of processes or agents interacting with one another to accomplish a common goal. They execute on Wide Area environments with little or no knowledge of the infrastructure and almost no control over the...

0 replies - 6523 views - 06/14/10 by Animesh Kumar in Articles

JPPF 2.1

What's new in JPPF 2.1 Performance The development of this release has seen a lot of emphasis on both memory usage and performance improvements. The JPPF server now executes multithreaded network I/O and reaches new levels of scalability. JPPF applications...

0 replies - 966 views - 04/21/10 by Laurent Cohen in Announcements

Turning Ordinary OSGi Services Into Remote OSGi Services

The Distributed OSGi (DOSGi) subproject of the Apache CXF project recently released the 1.1 of its reference implementation for the Distributed OSGi specification.  DZone spoke with David Bosschaert and Eoghan Glynn, who are both members of the OSGi...

0 replies - 9473 views - 12/23/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Performance Considerations in Distributed Applications

Distribution and Communication between applications and services is a central concept in modern application architectures. In order to profit from distribution you have to keep some basic principles in mind – otherwise you can easily run into performance...

1 replies - 9326 views - 09/30/09 by Alois Reitbauer in News

JPPF 1.9.1

Numerous bugs have been fixed in this maintenance version, increasing the stability and reliability of the platform components. Improvements and fixes have been brought to the management, client and server components, as well as to the J2EE and GigaSpaces...

0 replies - 901 views - 08/05/09 by Laurent Cohen in Announcements

ProActive Parallel Suite 4.1: Java Open Source Framework for Parallel and Distributed Computing

ActiveEon engineers and OASIS research team are pleased to announce the availability of ProActive Parallel Suite 4.1, the latest release of the high-end professional open source Java middleware for parallel and distributed computing.ProActive Parallel Suite...

0 replies - 1428 views - 05/30/09 by Celine Despoix in Announcements

JPPF Releases Version 1.7

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0 replies - 2152 views - 12/19/08 by Laurent Cohen in Announcements

Hazelcast, a Clustering and Data Distribution Solution - Now Open Source!

Hazelcast, a transactional distributed/partitioned queue, topic, map, set, lock, executor service implementation for Java, is now open source and released under Apache license.Features:

0 replies - 2531 views - 12/17/08 by Talip Ozturk in Announcements

How Hadoop Map/Reduce works

In my previous post, I talk about the methodology of transforming a sequential algorithm into parallel. After that, we can implement the parallel algorithm, one of the popular framework we can use is the Apache Opensource Hadoop Map/Reduce...

4 replies - 21294 views - 12/16/08 by Ricky Ho in Articles

JPPF 1.6: Java-Based Open Source Grid Computing Platform

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1 replies - 3850 views - 10/30/08 by Laurent Cohen in Announcements

Hazelcast 1.2: Distributed ExecutorService

One of the coolest new features of Java 1.5 is the Executor framework, which allows you to asynchronously execute your tasks, logical units of works, such as database query, complex calculation, image rendering etc. So one nice way of executing such tasks...

0 replies - 6793 views - 09/17/08 by Talip Ozturk in Announcements

Java Parallel Processing Framework 1.4

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0 replies - 5105 views - 08/23/08 by Laurent Cohen in Announcements

JPPF Updates Java Grid Computing Toolkit

JPPF, the Java Parallel Processing Framework is a grid computing toolkit for Java that makes it easy to run applications in parallel, and speed up their execution by orders of magnitude. Update version 1.0.1 has just been released.

0 replies - 3690 views - 01/31/08 by Laurent Cohen in News

Mobile grid apps

In the wake of Google Android, people from three different grid vendors have written about mobile grids: me from Terracotta, Bob Lozano from Appistry, and Nikita Ivanov from GridGain. I think Bob and I both had the reaction of..."cool, but what would...

0 replies - 1789 views - 01/18/08 by Alex Miller in News