[Purdue-pm] Parallel loops

[Joe Kline]

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On 06/11/2012 10:01 AM, Dave Jacoby wrote:
> On 6/11/2012 9:14 AM, Joe Kline wrote:
>> I had one program that did some stuff in parallel but I used something
>> else to parallelize it but this looks much simpler.
> 
> I've always found it hard to think in multithread terms, but now that
> multicore PCs come free in your children's Happy Meals, it is about time
> we as a community (all programmers, not just Perl programmers or Purdue
> programmers or Purdue Perl programmers) come to terms with it.
> 

And things like this make it a lot easier, not quite for "free" like in
things like MPI, but better.

I found my one program that did threaded stuff.

The modules it uses:

threads
Thread::Queue

threads is core and basically hands off the stuff to the OS to deal with
(mostly).

I needed Thread::Queue because of how input/output works in threaded
stuff. It took me awhile to really understand how to make my (initially)
serial program and parallelize.

Not so simple.

Finding tools, like Parallel::Loops, to make hard jobs easy is what Perl
is all about I think.

It's just a matter of finding them and making sure it fits your job (the
second or third hard part in a job).

joe
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