Parallel software design patterns

There's also live online events, interactive content, certification prep materials, and more. Explore a preview version of Patterns for Parallel Software Design right now. Software patterns have revolutionized the way we think about how software is designed, built, and documented, and the design of parallel software requires you to consider other particular design aspects and special skills.

From clusters to supercomputers, success heavily depends on the design skills of software developers. Patterns for Parallel Software Design presents a pattern-oriented software architecture approach to parallel software design. This approach is not a design method in the classic sense, but a new way of managing and exploiting existing design knowledge for designing parallel programs.

Moreover, such approaches enhance not only build-time properties of parallel systems, but also, and particularly, their run-time properties. Features known solutions in concurrent and distributed programming, applied to the development of parallel programs. Patterns for Parallel Software Design will give you the skills you need to develop parallel software. Processing components. Processing components make up the parallel software system.

Their design and implementation focus on performing simultaneous operations on data. Communication components. Communication components represent the cooperation — through exchange of data or the request for operations — between processing components. They are the linking software that allow information exchange between processing components of the parallel software system and constitute the basic elements for its coordination. This chapter introduces some common structures used for enabling communication between and among parallel processing components.

It describes communication components as design patterns, with the aim of providing parallel software designers and engineers with an overview of some common structures for software components used for communication, providing guidelines for their selection during the design stages of a parallel software system.