R: Utilizing multiple CPUs
R is a great piece of software to perform statistical analyses. Computing power can however be a limitation. R by default uses only a single CPU. In almost every …
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JavaOne 2012: Thinking Through Java Enterprise Performance (BOF 4712)
Performance of Enterprise Java Applications is a requirement and usually a challenge. Business requirements on systems can be stiff, successful systems can easily be overloaded and complex application architectures …
Introduction of BPEL 2.0 forEach activity – valuable loop and standard based successor to FlowN
BPEL 2.0 introduced the forEach activity – similar to for found in many programming languages. Oracle SOA Suite 11g adopted BPEL 2.0, first in run time (PS2) and later …
Using asynchronous mechanisms in Java and JavaScript for improving the user experience
In this article, we will continue a discussion on asynchronous processing started in a previous article that introduced asynchronous and parallel processing Java using Executors, Futures, Callable Objects …
Asynchronous processing in Java applications – leveraging those multi-cores
Processors are not going to get much faster. No higher clockspeeds are foreseen. The speed of processing will be further increasing through parallellization, engaging multiple CPU cores for …
Advanced Concurrency control in BPEL Flow – controlling the execution of parallel branches
In a previous article I discussed the parallel execution of activities in BPEL, more specifically in Oracle BPEL PM 11g (TP4). This article concluded that true parallellism hardly exists. …