Multicore Application Programming: For Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris

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Addison-Wesley Professional, 2011 - 441 pagina's
Write High-Performance, Highly-Scalable Multicore Applications for Any Leading Hardware and OS Environment

Programmers who know how to leverage today's multicore processors can achieve remarkable performance improvements, but multicore programming has traditionally been viewed as complex and difficult. Multicore Application Programming is the solution: a comprehensive, practical guide to high-performance multicore programming that any experienced developer can use.

Author Darryl Gove covers all leading approaches to virtualization on multiple leading platforms, including Linux, Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows. Through practical examples, he illuminates the challenges involved in writing applications that fully utilize multicore features, helping you produce applications that are functionally correct, offer superior performance, and scale well to eight cores, sixteen cores, and beyond.

Gove reveals how specific hardware implementations impact application performance and shows how to avoid common potential programming pitfalls. Step by step, you'll write applications that can handle large numbers of parallel threads, and you'll master today's most 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
  • Take advantage of automatic parallelization and OpenMP
  • Hand-code synchronization and sharing
  • 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.

 

Geselecteerde pagina's

Inhoudsopgave

1 Hardware Processes and Threads
1
2 Coding for Performance
31
3 Identifying Opportunities for Parallelism
85
4 Synchronization and Data Sharing
121
5 Using POSIX Threads
143
6 Windows Threading
199
7 Using Automatic Parallelization and OpenMP
245
8 HandCoded Synchronization and Sharing
295
9 Scaling with Multicore Processors
333
10 Other Parallelization Technologies
383
11 Concluding Remarks
411
Bibliography
417
Index
419
Copyright

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Multicore Application Programming: for Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris
Darryl Gove
Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2010
Multicore Application Programming: for Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris
Darryl Gove
Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2010

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

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Over de auteur (2011)

Darryl Gove is a senior principal software engineer in the Oracle Solaris Studio compiler team. He works on the analysis, parallelization, and optimization of both applications and benchmarks. Darryl has a master's degree and a doctorate in operational research from the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of the books Solaris Application Programming (Prentice Hall, 2008) and The Developer's Edge (Sun Microsystems, 2009). He writes regularly about optimization and coding and maintains a blog at www.darrylgove.com.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelMulticore Application Programming: For Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris
Developer's library
AuteurDarryl Gove
Editiegeïllustreerd
UitgeverAddison-Wesley Professional, 2011
ISBN0321711378, 9780321711373
Lengte441 pagina's
  
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