It’s Parallel Programming 101 • Why can’t we advance from here? • Almost all of the patterns discussed are either intuitive, or covered in introductory courses. • Do these patterns capture …

Structure the UEs (units of execution) of a parallel computation, for better manageability and easier integration with the core computation.

Evaluate Design What is the target architecture? Shared memory, distributed memory, message passing, … Does data sharing have enough special properties (read only, accumulate, …

There are a number of parallel code patterns that are closely related to the system or hardware that a program is being written for and the software library used to enable parallelism, or …

Parallel Design Patterns¶ There are multiple levels of parallel design patterns that can be applied to a program. At the highest level, algorithmic strategy patterns are strategies for decomposing …

In particular, this chapter introduces the concept of threads, describes how to use them to write parallel programs, and provides some detailed examples. The most common models for …

Since parallel programming has existed for quite a long time, there are many different patterns for programming parallel applications. There are even special programming languages to make …

Examine the catalogs of parallel design patterns for structures which match the dependencies in your application. Use the templates and examples for the appropriate patterns to structure and …

Design Evaluation Pattern • Whether the partition fits the target hardware platform? • Key questions to ask – How many threads can be supported? – How many threads are needed? – …

Parallel programming involves writing code that divides a program’s task into parts, works in parallel on different processors, has the processors report back when they are done, and …