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The majority of mainstream programming languages support parallel computing via extended libraries that require restructuring of sequential code. Library-based features are portable, but tend to be verbose and usually reduce the understandability and modifiability of code. On the contrary, approaches with language constructs promote simple code structures, hide the complexity of parallelization and...
The event-driven programming pattern is pervasive in a wide range of modern software applications. Unfortunately, it is not easy to achieve good performance and responsiveness when developing event-driven applications. Traditional approaches require a great amount of programmer effort to restructure and refactor code, to achieve the performance speedup from parallelism and asynchronization. Not only...
The biggest difficulty that students face when learning programming is in developing the necessary cognitive skills that allows them to apply what they have learnt. It is generally accepted that programming is one of those things that can only be learnt by doing and actively engaging with it. Parallel programming is a prime example of a programming area that students commonly struggle with. A major...
In order to reduce the complexity of traditional multithreaded parallel programming, this paper explores a new task-based parallel programming using the Microsoft .NET Task Parallel Library (TPL). Firstly, this paper proposes a custom data partitioning optimization method to achieve an efficient data parallelism, and applies it to the matrix multiplication. The result of the application supports the...
This paper presents experience using a research-infused teaching approach towards an undergraduate parallel programming course. The research-teaching nexus is applied at various levels, first by using research-led teaching of core parallel programming concepts, as well as teaching the latest developments from the affiliated research group. The bulk of the course, however, focuses more on the student-driven...
This paper details recent experience in teaching parallel computing concepts to undergraduate Computer Science students. By taking a practical approach in delivering the material, students are shown to have grasped essential multi-threading concepts in Java, ensuring they are able to implement the necessary skills themselves. The motivation for parallel computing is clearly demonstrated early in the...
This article explores desktop applications' structure and the threading model's limitations while examining the parallelization of a desktop application using object-oriented and GUI-aware concepts.
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...
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