This book explains how software developers can apply a novel technique to adapt the number of threads at runtime without any modification in the source code nor recompilation.

This book is useful for software developers in general since it offers realistic examples throughout to demonstrate various techniques presented.

Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck Filho received his Dr. degree from UFRGS, Brazil, in 2008. Currently, he is a professor at the Applied Informatics Department at the Informatics Institute of UFRGS, in charge of Embedded Systems and Computer Organization disciplines at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His primary research interests include computer architectures and embedded systems design, focusing on power consumption.

 a. introduction

 b. scalability analysis

 c. this book

2) Fundamental Concepts

  a. parallel computing in software

  b. power and energy consumption

  c. design space exploration of optimization techniques

3) Does the parallel programming interface matter?

 a. Introduction

 b. methodology

 c. results

4) Improving parallel applications

 a. thread-level parallelism exploitation

 b. dynamic voltage and frequency scaling

5) Case Study

 a. Aurora: seamless optimization of OpenMP applications

 b. FDT: feedback-driven threading

 c. VARUNA

6) Conclusion