Parallel Patternlets

This document contains simple examples of basic elements that are combined to form patterns often used in programs employing parallelism. The examples are separated between two major coordination patterns:

1. message passing used on single multiprocessor machines or clusters of distributed computers, and
2. mutual exclusion between threads executing concurrently on a single shared memory system.

Both sets of examples are illustrated with the C programming language, using standard popular available libraries. The message passing example uses a C library called MPI (Message Passing Interface). The mutual Exclusion/shared memory examples use the OpenMP library.

Source Code

Please download all examples from this tarball: patternlets.tgz

Patternlet Examples

• Message Passing Parallel Patternlets
• Shared Memory Parallel Patternlets in OpenMP