There are plenty of virtualization technologies. There are organizations like VMware, VirtualBox and XEN, whose virtualization allows one to run several virtual computers using one physical computer. I worked at a company called ScaleMP. ScaleMP’s technology, vSMP, turns multiple physical computers into one large computer. Today I was looking for something different. I was looking […]

Recently I ran into few pieces of code here and there that assumed that int is an atomic type. I.e. when you modify value of the variable from two or more different threads at the same time, all of the changes you’ve made to the value will remain intact. But really, can you modify variables […]