Multicore Programming 101

For multithreading, there are 4 implementations in software: Pthreads where programmer has to manage threads (errorprone) (C), Threading Building Blocks in C++ (TBB) runs on top of native threads - programmers manage tasks, not threads; OpenMP runs on top of native threads as linguistic extensions of C, C++, and FORTRAN; and Cilk++ from MIT (http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/) acquired as Cilk++ by Intel - where Cilk can run on Linux laptop networks to many computers in parallel.

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