Improving Blocking Operation Support in Intel TBB

Author

Dokulil, Jiri ; Benkner, Siegfried ; Sandrieser, Martin

Author_Institution

Res. Group Sci. Comput., Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

fYear

2013

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

62

Abstract

The Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) template library has become a popular tool for programming many-core systems. However, it is not suitable in situations where a large number of potentially blocking calls has to be made to handle long-running operations like disk access or remote data access. We have designed and implemented an add-on for the TBB that allows developers to better integrate long-running operations into their applications. We have extended TBB´s task dependencies to also include blocking operations and implemented a run-time that efficiently manages these dependencies.

Keywords

multi-threading; multiprocessing systems; software libraries; blocking operation support improvement; intel TBB template library; intel threading building block template library; long-running operations; many-core systems; many-core systemsdisk access; remote data access; Coprocessors; Engines; Instruction sets; Libraries; Message systems; Programming; Radiation detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2418-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDCAT.2013.16

Filename

6904233