Parallel API's

[davidlofstrand]

Hello,

I'm working as a developer at a company where we develop surgical simulators.

About a year ago I tried out TBB in an experimental setup and was satisfied with the performance increases I gained in the test environment.

We use c++ as our main programming language for the simulation, our target OS is Windows 7 and we currently use intel processors.

Do you have any references where I can compare and read about different API choices concerning parallel programming?

I have used TBB just a littlle from the previous test but generally I just want to make sure that I know what I have to stick with when the time comes for me to make a technical choice.

Best Regards,

David

[Tudor]

Hi,

There is a nice paper by Charles E. Leiserson and Ilya B. Mirman which introduces some of the available choices for parallel programming in section 5.

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~gilbert/cs140Win2011/cilk/How_to_Survive_the_Multicore_Software_Revolution.pdf

This is just a small introduction which discusses each platform very briefly. You can then consult additional material on each of them.

[davidlofstrand]

Thank you.
Will help as a starting point.

[abdulahad1985]

Hi,

may be this link will be of some help

http://scalability.org/?p=106

[SergeyKostrov]

>>...

>>Do you have any references where I can compare and read about different API choices
>>concerning parallel programming?
>>...

Please take a look at:

AMD's Accelerated Parallel Processing ( APP )technology

NVIDIA's GPU APIs & Cuda technology

Microsoft's C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism ( AMP )technology

Best regards,
Sergey

[Ashool_H_]

Please see the link for parallel programming in .net
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Samples-for-Parallel-b4b76364