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Increasing Performance through Software Multithreading
by Shameem Akhter and Jason Roberts |
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Discover programming techniques for Intel multi-core architecture and
Hyper-Threading Technology
Software developers can no longer rely on increasing clock speeds alone to
speed up single-threaded applications; instead, to gain a competitive
advantage, developers must learn how to properly design their applications to
run in a threaded environment. Multi-core architectures have a single processor
package that contains two or more processor "execution cores," or
computational engines, and deliver—with appropriate software—fully
parallel execution of multiple software threads. Hyper-Threading Technology
enables additional threads to operate on each core.
This book helps software developers write high-performance multi-threaded code
for Intel's multi-core architecture while avoiding the common parallel
programming issues associated with multi-threaded programs.
Highlights include:
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Elements of parallel programming and multi-threading |
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Programming with threading APIs |
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OpenMP*: The portable solution
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Solutions to common parallel programming problems |
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Debugging and testing multi-threaded applications |
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Software development tools for multi-threading |
This book is a practical, hands-on volume with immediately usable code examples
that enable readers to quickly master the necessary programming techniques. The
companion Web site contains pointers to threading and optimization tools, code
samples from the book, and extensive technical documentation on Intel
multi-core architecture.
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Shameem Akhter is a platform architect at Intel, focusing on
single socket multi-core architecture and performance analysis. He has also
worked as a senior software engineer with the Intel Software and Solutions
Group, designing application optimizations for desktop and server platforms.
Shameem holds a patent on a threading interface for constraint programming,
developed as a part of his master's thesis in computer science.
Jason Roberts is a senior software engineer at Intel
Corporation. Over the past 10 years, Jason has worked on a number of different
multi-threaded software products that span a wide range of applications
targeting desktop, handheld, and embedded DSP platforms.
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