The kernel dispatcher and associated subsystems provide for the prioritization and scheduling of kernel threads in one of several bundled scheduling classes. The details of the implementation are ...

So, my research group just bought a compute cluster of six dual G5 XServes (wheee!). They're operating great, and people have even begun to multithread their code to take full advantage of the dual ...

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...