James Reinders

Intel Threading Building Blocks

Outfitting C++ for Multi-Core Processor Parallelism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 180mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9780596514808
• ISBN-10: 0596514808
• Artikelnr.: 22913684

Autorenporträt

James Reinders, Chief Evangelist of Intel Software Products, is a senior engineer who joined Intel Corporation in 1989 and has contributed to a number of projects, including the world's first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red), compilers and architecture work for the iWarp, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Itanium, and Pentium 4 processors. He has years of experience in processor architecture, optimizing compilers, parallel computer architecture, and making products for software developers. Reinders is also the editorial columnist for the monthly "The Gauntlet" at www.devX.go-parallel.com, as well as the author of the Intel Press book titled "VTune Performance Analyzer Essentials" and contributor to the new book "Multi-Core Programming."

Inhaltsangabe

Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Note from the Lead Developer of Intel Threading Building Blocks Preface 1. Why Threading Building Blocks? Overview Benefits 2. Thinking Parallel Elements of Thinking Parallel Decomposition Scaling and Speedup What Is a Thread? Mutual Exclusion and Locks Correctness Abstraction Patterns Intuition 3. Basic Algorithms Initializing and Terminating the Library Loop Parallelization Recursive Range Specifications Summary of Loops 4. Advanced Algorithms Parallel Algorithms for Streams 5. Containers concurrent_queue concurrent_vector concurrent_hash_map 6. Scalable Memory Allocation Limitations Problems in Memory Allocation Memory Allocators Replacing malloc, new, and delete 7. Mutual Exclusion When to Use Mutual Exclusion Mutexes Mutexes Atomic Operations 8. Timing 9. Task Scheduler When Task-Based Programming Is Inappropriate Much Better Than Raw Native Threads Initializing the Library Is Your Job Example Program for Fibonacci Numbers Task Scheduling Overview How Task Scheduling Works Recommended Task Recurrence Patterns Making Best Use of the Scheduler Task Scheduler Interfaces Task Scheduler Summary 10. Keys to Success Key Steps to Success Relaxed Sequential Execution Safe Concurrency for Methods and Libraries Debug Versus Release For Efficiency's Sake Enabling Debugging Features Mixing with Other Threading Packages Naming Conventions 11. Examples The Aha! Factor A Few Other Key Points parallel_for Examples The Game of Life Parallel_reduce Examples CountStrings: Using concurrent_hash_map Quicksort: Visualizing Task Stealing A Better Matrix Multiply (Strassen) Advanced Task Programming Packet Processing Pipeline Memory Allocation Game Threading Example Physics Interaction and Update Code Open Dynamics Engine 12. History and Related Projects Libraries Languages Pragmas Generic Programming Caches Costs of Time Slicing Quick Introduction to Lambda Functions Further Reading Index

Rezensionen

"Das Buch 'Intel Threading Building Blocks' ist zurzeit das einzige Buch zum Thema Threading Building Blocks (TBB).[...] Insgesamt bietet das Buch eine umfassende Einführung in die Funktionsweise und alle wichtigen Konstrukte von TBB. Die Praxistipps und umfangreichen Beispiele in der zweiten Hälfte des Buches machen das Buch auch für Leser interessant, die bereits erste Erfahrungen mit TBB gesammelt haben. Das Buch ist somit sowohl als Einführung für Neueinsteiger in die Programmierung mit TBB, als auch als Nachschlagewerk für Fortgeschrittene C++-Entwickler geeignet." -- Philipp Kegel und Sergei Gorlatch, WWU Münster, Dezember 2008