DistributedAndConcurrentProgramming

This page contains a collection of links, notes, and resources related to distributed and concurrent programming.

Papers and Projects

• A Note on Distributed Computing (Samuel C. Kendall, Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath, and Geoff Wyant)

• AME: Automatic Mutual Exclusion (Michael Isard and Andrew Birrell)

• The Problem with Threads (Edward A. Lee)

• SEDA: An Architecture for Highly Concurrent Server Applications (Matt Welsh)

• Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) (Rob von Behren, Jeremy Condit, and Eric Brewer)

Software/Tools

Python

The Python Wiki has sections on distributed programming and parallel processing that contain many relevant links.

• Twisted (in particular, see Asynchronous Programming with Twisted)

• Stackless Python (which may be replaced or rendered redundant by PyPy)

• greenlet ( Cheese Shop)

• eventlet

• spasmoidal

• Pyro: PYthon Remote Objects

• YAMI: Yet Another Messaging Infrastructure

• PARLEY: Python Actor Runtime LibrarY

Other Languages

• Erlang

  • An informal introduction to Erlang-style concurrency

  • Joe Armstrong's home page; of particular interest is his Ph.D. thesis

  • trapexit

• Newsqueak

• Scala

• Fortress

Random Stuff

• Fallacies of Distributed Computing

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (part of the Amazon Web Services suite)