C, C#, Erlang, and more A list of book releases compiled by Dr. Dobb's to keep you up-to-date on parallel programming and multicore technology.

An intersting video showing how an application's performance increases when optimized for parallel execution. It's a book's promotion, but it is very instructive.

"My previous post discussed my thoughts on how to read programming books, here comes my reading list of programming/computer science books..."

A startup founded by an MIT professor claims to have "solved the fundamental challenges associated with multicore scalability." Tilera's first products include a 64-core Tile64 SoC (system-on-chip), PCIe Express add-in board for networking and video-processing applications, multicore-optimized Linux libraries, and an Eclipse-based multicore development environment toolset.

Chipmaker AMD has integrated the open standard OpenCL specification for parallel programming into its ATI Stream development environment.

Java's development team understands the multicore revolution and is working hard in offering a new concurrency framework taking into account the new possibilities offered by the new microprocessors. Hence, JDK 7 (Java Development Kit 7) will offer the fork-join framework in order to help Java developers to tackle the multicore revolution using this popular programming language.

Many people say multicore CPUs are useless. Watching this video you will find out that there is a lot of power in multicore CPUs.

Free and open source software is all about sharing so, prompted by a reader who emailed me last week to ask about books on Linux, I spent some time over the weekend doing research. The result is a short list of books that users - from newbies to gurus - can download and read at their leisure.

Lists of books about: Installation and Getting Started, Security, Sys Admin, Programming, Migration, Kernel, and more