For example, the Streams API focuses on parallel processing of large data sets, ... Although Java 8 will be available today, Oracle will hold an official launch webcast on March 25.

In-memory data grid (IMDG) specialist Hazelcast Inc. yesterday launched a new distributed processing engine for Big Data streams. The open-source, Apache 2-licenced Hazelcast Jet is designed to ...

A data-parallel API called APARAPI already allows Java developers to use the compute power of GPU and CPUs, but code-enablement will get easier in Java 8 and then 9. Java is widely used in cloud ...

Now Java developers are abuzz about virtual threads, a feature introduced in Java 21. Java virtual threads are much lighter and more efficient than traditional operating system threads, and excel at ...

Sumatra will repurpose Java 8’s multi-core APIs called Stream or Lambda to enable both CPU or GPU computing, but it will need an extra layer of code for parallel execution. With Java 9, support ...