Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on May 2nd, 2009
“What are thread pools for, and how can you use them effectively? As shown below, thread pools are about letting the programmer express lots of pieces of independent work as a “sea” of tasks to be executed, and then running that work on a set of threads whose number is automatically chosen to spread the [...]
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Aaron Tersteeg from Intel has posted some extensive links on the topic of threading for multicore. If you at all are involved in programming for multicore I would urge you to check this out.
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A quick round up of articles and news that will be of interest to this in the HPC / Grid /Cloud space:
A new article from Sun describes the profiling of Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications with the Sun Studio Performance Tools. It starts with an overview of MPI performance data, explains how to profile MPI [...]
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