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'''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.<ref>[http://www.aurorasoft.net/workshops/lar04/Author_Files/Papers/Vivek_Sarkar_LaR_04_Paper_V1.pdf]</ref>

X10 is designed specifically for [[parallel programming]]. It is an "extended [[subset]]" of the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] programming language, strongly resembling it in most aspects, but featuring additional support for [[array]]s and [[Concurrency (computer science)|concurrency]]. X10 uses a [[Partitioned global address space]] model.