1) Berkeley consternation about the inability of current concurrency to keep up with multicor developments

1)    http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CWDB5YTIKPC4QQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=206801376&pgno=2&printable=true

 

    http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=206801229

 

    IMO a gauntlet has been thrown down to the Haskell world here.

 

 

2) Sun Microsystem's planned support of hardware transactional memory

      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/21/sun_transactional_memory_rock/  

 

     I have fished around and collected some Sun papers and slides. If any anybody wants I can post the URLs or send to the interested

 

Regards, Vasys