CAF-PP: C++ Actor Framework - Parallel Patterns

Parallel pattern library for the C++ Actor Framework (CAF)

This repository is an early stage implement of efficient and optimized parallel patterns for the Actor Model. The library especially targets multi-cores and it exploits shared-memory to efficient implement Parallel patterns.

The Parallel patterns provided so far are:

• Pipeline
• Farm
• Map
• Divide&Conquer

In the /examples folder, there are some base examples on how to use the provided parallel pattern inside an Actor-based application.

Build from source

Download the repository and do the following:

mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix-path=<path-to-caf-folder>
make -j

To compile with the release optimizations pass the --release parameter to the configure script. For other configurations see the configure help.

Dependency

• C++ Actor Framework
• range-v3 (automatically downloaded if not founded)

License

MIT License

How to Cite

If our work is useful for your research, please cite the following paper:

@article{DBLP:journals/ijpp/RinaldiTSMD20,
  author    = {Luca Rinaldi and Massimo Torquati and Daniele De Sensi and Gabriele Mencagli and Marco Danelutto},
  title     = {Improving the Performance of Actors on Multi-cores with Parallel Patterns},
  journal   = {Int. J. Parallel Program.},
  volume    = {48},
  number    = {4},
  pages     = {692--712},
  year      = {2020},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10766-020-00663-1},
  doi       = {10.1007/s10766-020-00663-1},
  timestamp = {Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/ijpp/RinaldiTSMD20.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

Contributors

This work has been developed by Massimo Torquati and Luca Rinaldi.