14–18 Jun 2021
Online event
Europe/Zurich timezone

Writing parallel software

15 Jun 2021, 09:00
1h
Lecture Track 2: Parallel and Optimised Scientific Software

Speaker

Danilo Piparo (CERN)

Description

Parallel and Optimised Scientific Software - lecture 1

  • Amdahl's and Gustafson's laws
  • Asynchronous execution
  • Finding concurrency, task vs. data parallelism
  • Using threading in C++ and Python, comparison with multi-process
  • Resource protection and thread safety
  • Locks, thread local storage, atomic operations

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