CSC/ECE 506 Spring 2010/ch 3 jb/Parallel Programming Model Support

Supplement to Chapter 3: Support for parallel-programming models. Discuss how DOACROSS, DOPIPE, DOALL, etc. are implemented in packages such as Posix threads, Intel Thread Building Blocks, OpenMP 2.0 and 3.0.

Intel Threading Building Blocks

According the to Intel® Software site, Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) is a C++ template library that abstracts thread to tasks to create reliable, portable, and scalable parallel applications.

References

- Yan Solihin, Fundamentals of Parallel Computer Architecture: Multichip and Multicore Systems, Solihin Books, August 2009.

- https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/

- http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/

- Intel® Corporation, "Intel® TBB - Intel® Software Network", http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-tbb/

- Intel® Corporation, "Intel® Threading Building Blocks 2.2 for Open Source", http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/

- http://openmp.org/wp/

- https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/openMP/