[Crib-list] T O D A Y: SPEAKER, Arch Robison (Intel®) -- "Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar - CRIBB" -- Tuesday, August 24, 2010 -- 12:30 -- Room 32-D463 (Stata)

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .
  
  
  	COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR (CRIBB)


NOTE Location ...  
  
DATE:		Tuesday, August 24, 2010
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room D463 (Stata)

Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 32-D463.
 
  
TITLE:		Introduction to Intel® Threading Building Blocks
  
SPEAKER:	ARCH ROBISON  (Intel®)
  
  
ABSTRACT:
  
Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB) is a commercially supported 
open-source C++ template library for parallel programming of shared-memory 
hardware.  TBB stresses a scalable and nestable approach to parallelism, 
which is critical for successful multi-core modular software.  I will 
focus on the generic algorithms portion of TBB, which enable programmers 
to express parallelism at a high level, without becoming tangled in low 
level details of threading.  For example, TBB's parallel_reduce template 
lets the programmer specify a parallel reduction over any recursively 
divisible iteration space, using any associative operation.  I'll also 
touch on TBB's concurrent containers, which simplify common patterns of 
sharing between parallel activities.  TBB rounds out its concurrency 
support with critical low-level components such as locks, atomic 
operations, and a scalable memory allocator.
  
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