Dr. Clay Breshears, senior parallel architect, Intel Software College, takes us through common threading problems and suggests how to plan for and solve them.

Dr. Breshears also discusses a number of useful design patterns, illustrates how they work and suggest when they are most applicable to your applications.

Dr. Breshears is assisted in his exposition by two rather well-known retired actors from the Japanese cinema, three refugees from Microsoft and an assortment of rotund and crunchy union workers.

Topics include:

• Solving Data Races using critical regions
• Task Decomposition – Static and dynamic scheduling
• Data Decomposition – Static and dynamic scheduling
• Master Worker Pattern
• Producer Consumer Pattern – threading and the class struggle
• Choosing your threading strategy