Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism
TITLE : Intel Threading Building Blocks: Outfitting C++ for Multi-core Processor Parallelism [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by James Reinders (Author)
PUBLISHER : O’Reilly Media publisher
ISBN : 0596514808
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : July 12, 2007
LANGUAGE : English
Multi-core chips from Intel and AMD offer a dramatic boost in speed and
responsiveness, and plenty of opportunities for multiprocessing on
ordinary desktop computers. But they also present a challenge: More than
ever, multithreading is a requirement for good performance. This guide
explains how to maximize the benefits of these processors through a
portable C++ library that works on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Unix
systems. With it, you’ll learn how to use Intel Threading Building
Blocks (TBB) effectively for parallel programming — without having to
be a threading expert. Written by James Reinders, Chief Evangelist of
Intel Software Products, and based on the experience of Intel’s
developers and customers, this book explains the key tasks in
multithreading and how to accomplish them with TBB in a portable and
robust manner. With plenty of examples and full reference material, the
book lays out common patterns of uses, reveals the gotchas in TBB, and
gives important guidelines for choosing among alternatives in order to
get the best performance. You’ll learn how Intel Threading Building
Blocks:
- Enables you to specify tasks instead of threads for better
portability, easier programming, more understandable source code, and
better performance and scalability in general
- Focuses on the goal of parallelizing computationally intensive work
to deliver high-level solutions
- Is compatible with other threading packages, and doesn’t force you
to pick one package for your entire program
- Emphasizes scalable, data-parallel programming, which allows program
performance to increase as you add processors
- Relies on generic programming, which enables you to write the best
possible algorithms with the fewest constraints Any C++ programmer who
wants to write an application to run on a multi-core system will benefit
from this book. TBB is also very approachable for a C programmer or a
C++ programmer without much experience with templates. Best of all, you
don’t need experience with parallel programming or multi-core processors
to use this book.
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