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2016 Ontario Summer School on High Performance Computing
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, May 30 - June 3
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, July 11 - 15
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, August 8 - 12

Parallel Programming with the Posix Thread Library

Description

This workshop is for programmers and scientists with a basic background in C programming, who want to increase the flexibility and responsiveness of their code and take advantage of modern multicore and multi-threaded computer architectures. It is an introduction to the Posix Thread Library and its application to the parallelization of C programs. We assume no prior knowledge of multithreading or parallel programming, but some background in Unix operating systems and programming in C will be necessary. The lectures include demonstrations of example programs on a multicore machine. The following subjects will be

• Parallel Programming and Multithreading
• The Posix Thread Library, Basics of Thread Programming
• Creating and Manipulating of Threads
• Synchronization, Locks and Condition Variables
• Thread-Specific Data and Destructors

Instructor: Hartmut Schmider, Centre for Advanced Computing, Queen's University.

Prerequisites: Basic C programming, some familiarity with Unix.

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