Book description
Write High-Performance, Highly Scalable Multicore
Applications for Leading Platforms
Multicore Application Programming is a comprehensive,
practical guide to high-performance multicore programming that any
experienced developer can use.
Author Darryl Gove covers the leading approaches to parallelization on Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris. Through practical examples, he illuminates the challenges involved in writing applications that fully utilize multicore processors, helping you produce applications that are functionally correct, offer superior performance, and scale well to eight cores, sixteen cores, and beyond.
The book reveals how specific hardware implementations impact application performance and shows how to avoid common pitfalls. Step by step, you’ll write applications that can handle large numbers of parallel threads, and you’ll master advanced parallelization techniques. You’ll learn how to
Identify your best opportunities to use parallelism
Share data safely between multiple threads
Write applications using POSIX or Windows threads
Hand-code synchronization and sharing
Take advantage of automatic parallelization and OpenMP
Overcome common obstacles to scaling
Apply new approaches to writing correct, fast, scalable parallel code
Multicore Application Programming isn’t wedded to a single approach or platform: It is for every experienced C programmer working with any contemporary multicore processor in any leading operating system environment.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1. Hardware, Processes, and Threads
- 2. Coding for Performance
- 3. Identifying Opportunities for Parallelism
- 4. Synchronization and Data Sharing
- 5. Using POSIX Threads
- 6. Windows Threading
- 7. Using Automatic Parallelization and OpenMP
- 8. Hand-Coded Synchronization and Sharing
- 9. Scaling with Multicore Processors
- 10. Other Parallelization Technologies
- 11. Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Footnotes
Product information
- Title: Multicore Application Programming: For Windows, Linux, and Oracle® Solaris
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2010
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: None
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