Introduction to Multithreading

To program shared memory parallel computers, we can apply Open MP, the threads library in C, or the Intel Threading Building blocks in C++.

• Introduction to OpenMP
  • using OpenMP
  • Numerical Integration with OpenMP
  • Bibliography
  • Exercises
• Introduction to Pthreads
  • the POSIX threads programming interface
  • Using Pthreads
  • The Work Crew Model
  • implementing a critical section with mutex
  • The Dining Philosophers Problem
  • Bibliography
  • Exercises
• Introduction to the Intel Threading Building Blocks
  • the Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
  • task based programming and work stealing
  • using the parallel_for
  • using the parallel_reduce
  • Bibliography
  • Exercises