X10 is a programming language being developed by IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center as part of DARPA's High Productivity Computing Initiative (HPCS) program. Its primary authors are Kemal Ebcioglu, Vijay Saraswat, and Vivek Sarkar. [1] A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for the IBM Research Division. ... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. ...

X10 is designed specifically for parallel programming. It will be an "extended subset" of the Java programming language - strongly resembling it in most aspects, but featuring custom designed arrays and concurrency operations. It will support both object oriented and non-object oriented programming paradigms. Parallel programming is a computer programming technique that provides for the execution of operations in parallel, either within a single computer, or across a number of systems. ... A is a subset of B, and B is a superset of A. In mathematics, especially in set theory, a set A is a subset of a set B, if A is contained inside B. Every set is a subset of itself. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a computer programming paradigm in which a software system is modeled as a set of objects that interact with each other. ...

External links

• X10 home page
• Vivek Sarkar's X10 slides
• HPCS program