8 Simple Rules for Designing Threaded Applications

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The Threading Methodology used at Intel has four major steps: Analysis, Design & Implementation, Debugging, and Performance Tuning. These steps are used to create a multithreaded application from a serial base code. While the use of software tools for the first, third, and fourth steps is well documented, there hasn’t been much written about how to do the Design & Implementation part of the process. There are plenty of books published on parallel algorithms and computation. However, these tend to focus on message-passing, distributed-memory systems, or theoretical parallel models of computation that may or may not have much in common with realized multi-core platforms. If you’re going to be engaged in threaded programming, it can be helpful to know how to program or design algorithms for these models. Of course, these models are fairly limited and many software developers will not have had the opportunity to be exposed to systems that need such specialized programming. Multithreaded programming is still more art than science. This article gives 8 Simple Rules that you can add to your palette of threading design methods. By following these rules you will have more success in writing the best and most efficient threaded implementation of your applications.

Vendor:
Intel Software Network
Posted:
Feb 8, 2021
Published:
Nov 28, 2007
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