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Java Offering  Yet another software toolmaker has offered up its
solution to the parallel programming crisis. This week, French
software vendor Ateji released a Java solution for multicore
CPUs and multiprocessor server environments. Ateji PX for Java
is aimed at developers who want to take advantage of current and
future computer architectures by moving their legacy codes into
the parallel realm.  Now Java is not exactly the first language
that comes to mind when you think of parallel programming.
Although the language encompasses the thread model and the
notion of concurrency, it's up to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
component to implement true parallelism on the hardware.
Attempts to add more parallel smarts to the language itself are
numerous, but mostly incomplete. Th