Parallel and Concurrent Programming with C++ Part 1

Learn the basics of concurrent and parallel programming in C++ to write more efficient, performant code.

Introduction

• Learn parallel programming basics
• What you should know
• Installing Cygwin and Visual Studio Code

1. Parallel Computing Hardware

• Sequential versus parallel computing
• Parallel computing architectures
• Shared versus distributed memory

2. Threads and Processes

• Thread versus process
• Thread versus process: C++ demo
• Concurrent versus parallel execution
• Execution scheduling
• Execution scheduling: C++ demo
• Thread life cycle
• Thread life cycle: C++ demo
• Detached thread
• Detached thread: C++ demo

3. Mutual Exclusion

• Data race
• Data race: C++ demo
• Mutual exclusion
• Mutual exclusion: C++ demo
• Atomic objects: C++ demo

4. Locks

• Recursive mutex
• Recursive mutex: C++ demo
• Try lock
• Try lock: C++ demo
• Shared mutex
• Shared mutex: C++ demo

5. Liveness

• Deadlock
• Deadlock: C++ demo
• Abandoned lock
• Abandoned lock: C++ demo
• Starvation
• Starvation: C++ demo
• Livelock
• Livelock: C++ demo

Conclusion

• Next steps