Multicore Software Development Techniques: Applications, Tips, and Tricks

This book provides a set of practical processes and techniques used for multicore software development.  It is written with a focus on solving day to day problems using practical tips and tricks and industry case studies to reinforce the key concepts in multicore software development.

Coverage includes:

The multicore landscape

Principles of parallel computing

Multicore SoC architectures

Multicore programming models

The Multicore development process

Multicore programming with threads

Concurrency abstraction layers

Debugging Multicore Systems

Practical techniques for getting started in multicore development

Case Studies in Multicore Systems Development

Sample code to reinforce many of the concepts discussed

Presents the ‘nuts and bolts’ of programming a multicore systemProvides a short-format book on the practical processes and techniques used in multicore software developmentCovers practical tips, tricks and industry case studies to enhance the learning process

1. Principles of parallel computing
2. Parallelism in all of its forms
3. Multicore system architectures
4. Multicore Software Architectures
5. Multicore software development process
6. A case study on Multicore Development
7. Multicore Virtualization
8. Performance and Optimization of Multicore systems
9. Sequential to parallel migration of software applications
10. Concurrency abstraction layers