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{{Short description|Programming language by IBM}}

'''X10''' is a [[programming language]] being developed by [[IBM]] at the [[Thomas J. Watson Research Center]] as part of [[DARPA]]'s [[High Productivity Computing Systems]] (HPCS) program. Its primary authors are Kemal Ebcioglu, Vijay Saraswat, and Vivek Sarkar. [http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/Author_Files/Papers/Vivek_Sarkar_LaR_04_Paper_V1.pdf]

{{Infobox programming language

| name = X10

| logo =

| paradigm = [[object-oriented programming|Object-oriented]]

| year = {{Start date and age|2004}}

| designer = Kemal Ebcioğlu, Saravanan Arumugam, Vijay Saraswat, and Vivek Sarkar

| developer = [[IBM]]

| latest release version = [http://x10-lang.org/releases/x10-release-262.html 2.6.2]

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2019|01|08}}

| typing = [[Static type system|Static]], [[Type system#Strong and weak type systems|strong]], [[Type safety|safe]], constrained

| implementations =

| dialects =

| influenced by = [[C++]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]]

| influenced =

| programming language =

| operating system = [[IBM AIX]], [[Linux]], [[Mac OS X]], [[Windows]]

| license = [[Eclipse Public License]] 1.0

| file ext = .x10

| website = {{URL|x10-lang.org}}

| wikibooks =

| caption =

}}

'''X10''' is a [[programming language]] being developed by [[IBM]] at the [[Thomas J. Watson Research Center]] as part of the Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System ([[PERCS]]) project funded by [[DARPA]]'s [[High Productivity Computing Systems]] (HPCS) program. Its primary authors are Kemal Ebcioglu, Vijay Saraswat, and Vivek Sarkar. [http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/Author_Files/Papers/Vivek_Sarkar_LaR_04_Paper_V1.pdf]

==History==

X10 is designed specifically for [[parallel programming]]. It will be an "extended [[subset]]" of the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] programming language, strongly resembling it in most aspects, but featuring custom designed arrays and concurrency operations. It will support [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] and non-object-oriented programming paradigms.

Its primary authors are Kemal Ebcioğlu, Saravanan Arumugam (Aswath), Vijay Saraswat, and Vivek Sarkar.<ref>{{cite CiteSeerX | last1 = Ebcioğlu | first1 = Kemal | last2 = Saraswat | first2 = Vijay | last3 = Sarkar | first3 = Vivek | title = X10: Programming for Hierarchical Parallelism and NonUniform Data Access | citeseerx = 10.1.1.135.9826 }}</ref>

X10 is designed specifically for [[parallel computing]] using the [[partitioned global address space]] (PGAS) model.

A computation is divided among a set of ''places'', each of which holds some data and hosts one or more ''activities'' that operate on those data. It has a constrained type system for object-oriented programming, a form of [[dependent types]]. Other features include user-defined primitive ''struct'' types; globally distributed ''arrays'', and structured and unstructured parallelism.<ref>{{cite web | last1 = Saraswat | first1 = Vijay | last2 = Bloom | first2 = Bard | last3 = Peshansky | first3 = Igor | last4 = Tardieu | first4 = Olivier | last5 = Grove | first5 = David | url = https://x10.sourceforge.net/documentation/languagespec/x10-latest.pdf | title = X10 Language Specification Version 2.6.2 | date = January 4, 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

X10 uses the concept of parent and child relationships for activities to prevent the lock stalemate that can occur when two or more processes wait for each other to finish before they can complete. An activity may spawn one or more child activities, which may themselves have children. Children cannot wait for a parent to finish, but a parent can wait for a child using the ''finish'' command.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Biever | first = C. | title = Computer revolution poses problems for programmers | journal = New Scientist | volume = 193 | issue = 2594 }}</ref>

==Example code==

===[[Hello, World!]]===

{{sxhl|2=x10|1=

/** Example file for the X10 programming language (http://x10-lang.org).

*/

class Example {

public static def main(Rail[String]) {

Console.OUT.println("Hello, World!"); // say hello.

}

}

}}<ref>{{github|https://github.com/pygments/pygments/blob/master/tests/examplefiles/x10/example.x10|pygments/tests/examplefiles/x10/example.x10}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Chapel (programming language)|Chapel]]

* [[Coarray Fortran]]

* [[Concurrency (computer science)|Concurrency]]

* [[Fortress (programming language)|Fortress]]

* [[Non-blocking algorithm]]

* [[Parallel programming model]]

* [[Unified Parallel C]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==

* {{Official website}}

* [http://x10.sourceforge.net X10 home page]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719203355/http://wsdmhp09.hpcl.gwu.edu/kayi.pdf Overview of PGAS languages]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050508165133/http://www.research.ibm.com/vee04/Sarkar.pdf Vivek Sarkar's X10 slides]

* [http://www.highproductivity.org/ HPCS program]

* [httphttps://grothoff.org/christian/xtc/x10/ GPLed X10 prototype]

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