Speaker
Mr
Massimo Torquati
(Universita di Pisa)
Description
FastFlow is an open-source C++ research framework to support the development of multi-threaded
applications in modern multi/many-core heterogeneous platforms.
The framework provides well-known stream-based algorithm skeleton constructs such as pipeline, task-
farm and loop that are used to build more complex and powerful pattern: parallel_for, map, reduce,
macro-data-flow interpreter, genetic-computation, etc.
During this tutorial session, the participants will learn how to build application structured as a
combination of stream-based parallel pattern like pipeline, task-farm loops and their combinations.
Then more high-level patterns will be introduced such as parallel_for, map and reduce, stencil-reduce
and we will see how to mix stream and data-parallel patterns to build parallel applications and
algorithms.
Different possible implementations will be discussed and tested. Participants will have the opportunity
to implement multi-threading algorithms and simple benchmarks to evaluate performance (considering
also energy consumption).
Desirable prerequisite:
- Good knowledge of C programming
- Knowledge of multi-threading programming and concurrency problems.
- Knowledge of C++ templates. Features of C++11 standard will be also used.
- Basic Knowledge of OpenCL.
Primary author
Mr
Massimo Torquati
(Universita di Pisa)
