Intel Threading Building Blocks 线程构建模块

Praise for Intel Threading Building Blocks

“The Age of Serial Computing is over. With the advent of multi-core processors, parallel-

computing technology that was once relegated to universities and research labs is now

emerging as mainstream. Intel Threading Building Blocks updates and greatly expands the

‘work-stealing’ technology pioneered by the MIT Cilk system of 15 years ago, providing a

modern industrial-strength C++ library for concurrent programming.

“Not only does this book offer an excellent introduction to the library, it furnishes novices

and experts alike with a clear and accessible discussion of the complexities of

concurrency.”

“TBB promises to change how parallel programming is done in C++. This book will be

extremely useful to any C++ programmer. With this book, James achieves two important

goals:

• Presents an excellent introduction to parallel programming, illustrating the most com-

mon parallel programming patterns and the forces governing their use.

• Documents the Threading Building Blocks C++ library—a library that provides

generic algorithms for these patterns.

“TBB incorporates many of the best ideas that researchers in object-oriented parallel

computing developed in the last two decades.”

— Marc Snir, Head of the Computer Science Department, University of

I found the numerous code segments and complete parallel applications presented in the

book of great help to understand the main features of the library and illustrate the

different ways it can be used in the development of efficient parallel programs.”

— David Padua, University of Illinois

“The arrival of the multi-core chip architecture has brought great challenges in parallel

programming and there is a tremendous need to have good books that help and guide the

users to cope with such challenges.

“This book on Intel Threading Building Blocks provides an excellent solution in this direc-

tion and is likely to be an important text to teach its readers on parallel programming for

multi-cores.

create the new generation of parallel programs. In the presence of one of the ‘largest

disruptions that information technology has seen’ (referring to the introduction of multi-

core architectures), this was desperately needed.

“This book also fills an important need for instructional material, educating software engi-

neers of the new opportunities and challenges.

“The library-based approach, taken by the Threading Building Blocks, could be a signifi-

cant new step, as it complements approaches that rely on advanced compiler technology.”

— Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, Professor of ECE and Interim

Director of Computing Research Institute

“Multi-core systems have arrived. Parallel programming models are needed to enable the

packed full of information that will help beginners as well as experienced parallel

programmers to apply TBB to their own programming problems.”

— Barbara Chapman, CEO of cOMPunity, Professor of Computer

Science at the University of Houston

“Future generations of chips will provide dozens or even hundreds of cores. Writing appli-

cations that benefit from the massive computational power offered by these chips is not

going to be an easy task for mainstream programmers who are used to sequential algo-

rithms rather than parallel ones.

“Intel’s TBB is providing a big step forward into this long path, and what is better, all in the

C++ framework.”

— Eduard Ayguade, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Technical

University of Catalunya

“Intel’s TBB is to parallel programming what STL was to plain C++. Generic program-

ming with STL dramatically improved C++ programming productivity. TBB offers a

generic parallel programming model that hides the complexity of concurrency control. It

the arrival of multi-core (and soon many-core) processors to create a fundamental change

in the computing landscape. Parallelism is now going to be everyday stuff.

“Every C++ programmer is going to need to think about concurrency and parallelism and

Threading Building Blocks provides the right abstractions for them to do it correctly.

“This book is not just a discussion of a C++ template library. It provides a lovely and in-

depth overview of much of what we have learned about parallel computing in the last 25

years. It could be a great textbook for a course on parallel programming.”

— Dennis Gannon, Science Director, Pervasive Technology Labs at

Indiana University, former head of DARPA’s High Performance

Computing (HPC++) project, and steering committee member of the

dences and hand-threading complexities.

“This book should make developers productive without a steep training curve, and the

applications they produce should be of high quality and performance.”

— David Kuck, Intel Fellow, founder of KAI and former director of the

Center for Supercomputing Research and Development