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You're reading from Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Build solid enterprise software using task parallelism and multithreading

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789132410

Length 346 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Parallel Programming

Author (1):

Shakti Tanwar

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Fundamentals of Threading, Multitasking, and Asynchrony FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Parallel Programming

3. Task Parallelism

4. Implementing Data Parallelism

5. Using PLINQ

6. Section 2: Data Structures that Support Parallelism in .NET Core

7. Synchronization Primitives

8. Using Concurrent Collections

9. Improving Performance with Lazy Initialization

10. Section 3: Asynchronous Programming Using C#

11. Introduction to Asynchronous Programming

12. Async, Await, and Task-Based Asynchronous Programming Basics

13. Section 4: Debugging, Diagnostics, and Unit Testing for Async Code

14. Debugging Tasks Using Visual Studio

15. Writing Unit Test Cases for Parallel and Asynchronous Code

16. Section 5: Parallel Programming Feature Additions to .NET Core

17. IIS and Kestrel in ASP.NET Core

18. Patterns in Parallel Programming

19. Distributed Memory Management

20. Assessments

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Programming distributed memory machines using message passing

In this section, we will discuss how to program distributed memory machines using Microsoft's message passing interface (MPI).

MPI is a standard, portable system that has been developed for distributed and parallel systems. It defines the basic set of functions that are utilized by parallel hardware vendors to support distributed memory communication. In the following sections, we will discuss the advantages of using MPI over old messaging libraries and explain how to install and run a simple MPI program.

Why MPI?

An advantage of MPI is that MPI routines can be called from a variety of languages, such as C, C++, C#, Java, Python, and more. MPI is highly portable...

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Authors (1)

Tanwar

Shakti Tanwar is the CEO of Techpro Compsoft Pvt Ltd, a global provider of consulting in information technology services. He is a technical evangelist and software architect with more than 15 years of experience in software development and corporate training. Shakti is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has been conducting training in association with Microsoft in the Middle East. His areas of expertise include .NET; Azure Machine Learning; artificial intelligence; applications of pure functional programming to build fault-tolerant, reactive systems; and parallel computing. His love for teaching led him to start a special "train the professors" program for the betterment of colleges in India.

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