Java NIO — the New Input/Output API package– was introduced with J2SE 1.4 in 2002. Java NIO’s purpose was to improve the programming of I/O-intensive chores on the Java platform. A decade later, many ...

With the recent public beta release of J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4 (code-named Merlin), Sun has once again unleashed scores of new classes, features, and interfaces on unsuspecting ...

The old adage in the modern datacenter is that compute is free, but data movement is very, very expensive. We would add that data storage is also nearly free, although at the scale that hyperscalers ...

Over at Colfax Research, Andrey Vladimirov, Vadim Karpusenko, and Tony Yoo have posted a new whitepaper entitled: File I/O on Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors: RAM disks, VirtIO, NFS and Lustre. The key ...

Buffered I/O: as with C's Standard Library, IO Channels provide user-side buffering, which minimizes the number of system call invocations and ensures that I/O is performed in optimally sized units.

For a University assignment, I've got to use the Profs code in my own assignment. It's very ugly code, so I don't want to modify it...<BR><BR>Apparently, the code requires a file name be submitted ...