Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++

Chapter 11. Designing Components That Support Concurrency

	“As we cross the divide to instantiate ourselfs into our computational technology, our indentity will be based on our evolving mind file. We will be software, not hardware.”
	--Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines

In this Chapter

• Taking Advantage of Interface Classes

• A Closer Look at Object-Oriented Mutual Exclusion and Interface Classes

• Maintaining the Stream Metaphor

• User-Defined Classes Designed to Work with PVM Streams

• Object-Oriented Pipes and fifos as Low-Level Building Blocks

• Framework Classes Components for Concurrency

• Summary

As a rule of thumb the requirement for parallelism and concurrency within a piece of software should be discovered and not introduced. Sometimes the goal of ...