FastFlow Efficient programming for multicore
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Efficient programming for multicore FastFlow is multi-core programming framework that implements lock-free MPMC FIFO queues specifically designed to support the development of high-level programming frameworks on cache-coherent multi-core. FastFlow is faster than TBB, OpenMP and Cilk. FastFlow is specifically targeted to support the development of efficient streaming applications on cache-coherent multi-core platforms. It is realised as a C++ template library.Vanilla or other flavoursFastflow could be directly used to develop efficient multithreaded applications in a TBB fashion. However, it has been designed to support the design and development of high-level programming frameworks on multi-core platforms. They include Problem Solving Environment and general-purpose toolkits. As an example, we are currently developing a FastFlow-based frameworks to support* Parallel Monte Carlo simulations;* Parallel macro data-flow interpretation with automatic parallelization feature supporting skeletal programming;* An extension of Intel TBB supporting general streaming networks;* A (blazing fast) parallel memory allocator.FastFlow is fastWe experimentally demonstrate that FastFlow is always more efficient than state-of-the-art multi-core programming frameworks in a set of micro-benchmarks and on a real world application; the speedup edge of FastFlow over other solutions might be bold for fine grain tasks, as an example +35% on OpenMP, +226% on Cilk, +96% on TBB for the alignment of protein P01111 against UniProt DB using Smith-Waterman algorithm.FastFlow is open source under GPL. What's New in This Release: · new farm interface · pipeline skeleton · ff_send_out function introduced · possibility to build arbitrary graphs of pipeline and farms · mandelbrot set application · fixed some bugs

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