Parallel Task for parallelizing object-oriented desktop applications

As multi-cores arrive for mainstream desktop systems, developers must invest the effort to parallelize their applications. We present Parallel Task (short ParaTask), a solution to assist the parallelization of object-oriented applications, with the unique feature of including support for the paralle...

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Published in:2010 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Workshops and Phd Forum pp. 1 - 8
Main Authors: Giacaman, Nasser, Sinnen, Oliver
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.04.2010
Subjects:
Application software
Computer displays
Concurrent computing
desktop applications
event dispatch thread
graphical user interface
Graphical user interfaces
Multicore processing
Object oriented modeling
objectoriented programming
parallel computing
Parallel processing
Processor scheduling
Runtime
task parallelism
ISBN:9781424465330, 1424465338
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Summary:As multi-cores arrive for mainstream desktop systems, developers must invest the effort to parallelize their applications. We present Parallel Task (short ParaTask), a solution to assist the parallelization of object-oriented applications, with the unique feature of including support for the parallelization of graphical user interface (GUI) applications. In the simple, but common, cases concurrency is introduced with a single keyword. Due to the wide variety of parallelization needs, ParaTask integrates different task types into the same model, provides intuitive support for dependence handling, non-blocking notification, interim progress notification and exception handling in an asynchronous environment as well as supporting a pluggable task scheduling runtime (currently work-sharing, work-stealing and a combination of the two are supported). The performance is compared to traditional Java parallelization approaches using a variety of different workloads.
ISBN:9781424465330
1424465338
DOI:10.1109/IPDPSW.2010.5470765