parallelism

Teaching Parallelism at SIGCSE 2011- See the booth demo videos, session talks, and professor interviews!

The Intel Academic Community had a fantastic time engaging with computer science educators at SIGCSE 2011!

At SIGCSE, the Academic Community shared methodologies of teaching parallel programming to educators, including:

TBB initialization, termination, and resource management details, juicy and gory.

Well, maybe more essential than juicy, and rather treacherous than gory. As I noted in my previous blog introducing a major task scheduler extension – support for task and task group priorities, TBB has been steadily evolving ever since its inception.

Task and task group priorities in TBB

What I like most about Intel® Threading Building Blocks (TBB) library is its incessant evolution. Having been first released almost five years ago and enjoying quite broad adoption in the software development industry since then, it still keeps growing new features at unabated pace.

Exception Handling and Cancellation in TBB - Part IV – Using context objects

After a good deal of theoretizing about various cancellation scenarios, we’ve finally reached the point where we can touch a bit more material substance (if one can say so about information☺). So let’s see how to use group contexts in practice.

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