Dparallel_recursion

This library provides a framework to parallelize algorithms that follow a divide-and-conquer pattern. Its two main components are the skeletons parallel_recursion and dparallel_recursion. The first one parallelizes the required algorithm using multithreading within a single process. The second skeleton supports the parallelization across hybrid memory environments such as clusters of nodes with multi-core processors as well as multiple processes on top of the MPI standard.

Installation

Please read the accompanying INSTALL.md file.

Examples and documentation

• The benchmarks and tests directories contain implementations of algorithms with very different nature using the library and execising all its features.

• Running make doc in the doc directory builds a user-level documenation based on Doxygen. A more detailed documentation can be built by running make internal-doc.

• The parallel_recursion skeleton and its supporting classes are described and compared with other alternatives in the publication A Generic Algorithm Template for Divide-and-conquer in Multicore Systems (DOI 10.1109/HPCC.2010.24).

• The dparallel_recursion skeleton is described and compared with other alternatives in the publication A general and efficient divide-and-conquer algorithm framework for multi-core clusters (DOI 10.1007/s10586-017-0766-y).

License

This library is licensed under the Apache license V2 because that is the license for the Intel® TBB threading system it relies on. If you change it to rely on any other threading system, feel free to adapt the license accordingly.