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Parallel and Concurrent Programming with C++ Part 2

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Overview

Explore advanced techniques for parallel and concurrent programming with C++. Learn about condition variables, semaphores, barriers, thread pools, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Learn parallel programming basics
  • What you should know
  • Exercise files
1. Synchronization
  • Condition variable
  • Condition variable: C++ demo
  • Producer-consumer
  • Producer-consumer: C++ demo
  • Semaphore
  • Semaphore: C++ demo
2. Barriers
  • Race condition
  • Race condition: C++ demo
  • Barrier
  • Barrier: C++ demo
  • Latch: C++ demo
3. Asynchronous Tasks
  • Computational graph
  • Thread pool
  • Thread pool: C++ demo
  • Future
  • Future: C++ demo
  • Divide and conquer
  • Divide and conquer: C++ demo
4. Evaluating Parallel Performance
  • Speedup, latency, and throughput
  • Amdahl's law
  • Measure speedup
  • Measure speedup: C++ demo
5. Designing Parallel Programs
  • Partitioning
  • Communication
  • Agglomeration
  • Mapping
6. Challenge Problems
  • Welcome to the challenges!
  • Challenge: Matrix multiply
  • Solution: Matrix multiply
  • Challenge: Merge sort
  • Solution: Merge sort
  • Challenge: Download images
  • Solution: Download images
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Olivia Chiu Stone and Barron Stone

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