Parallelism Techdays–Free Parallelism and Threading training for Developers! Seattle/Bellevue–Sep 29th–Register NOW!

Dates Sept. 20, 2010 Sept. 22, 2010 Sept. 28, 2010 Sept. 29, 2010

Locations Montreal Chicago San Francisco Seattle / Bellevue

Session 1: Thinking in Parallel

· Why go parallel

· Types of parallelism

· Task-based parallelism (vs. traditional methods)

Session 2: Getting Started with Parallelism

· Approaches to conversion of serial code to parallel

· Approaches to creating parallel code from scratch

· Intel® Parallel Advisor demo with test application

Session 3: Implementing Parallelism

· Choosing a parallelism environment

· Reasons we will focus on Intel® TBB/Microsoft PPL in this class

· Overview of TBB/PPL

Session 4: Debugging & Correctness (Introduction)

· Overview of special bugs of parallel programs (deadlocks, data races)

· Debugging a parallel program (demos of Microsoft® Visual Studio 2010)

· Correction of data races (demo of Intel® Parallel Inspector)

· General guidelines for parallel programming

Session 5: Tuning

· Understanding parallel performance

· Performance tuning process

· Demos: Intel® Parallel Amplifier, Microsoft® Visual Studio 2010

· General strategies for solving parallel performance issues