Developing Highly Parallel Code

摘要

Icut my teeth as a software developer, and I know many engineers who still use their own code for specialized analysis of unique data, or to do simulations that require custom processing. Much of this code has been around for a long time, and while it may be highly efficient, it was never built to run on multiple processors or multiple processor cores.rnYet if engineers want that code to continue to be efficient, it must take advantage of the growing explosion of CPU cores on processors. As the number of cores expand to four, eight, and beyond, even on desktop systems, engineering applications need to take advantage of this power.