Lecture 15

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Explain the differences between processes and threads.
2. Use the following features of pthreads to write simple parallel programs: pthread_create and pthread_join.

Reading assignment

1. Section 4.1 - 4.2.
2. Lecture 15 slides.
3. Lecture 15 example codes.

Exercises and review questions

• Questions on current lecture's material
  1. Rewrite one of the pi codes to use pthreads for parallelization.
  2. (Post on the discussion board) Identify one difference between threads and processes that has not bee posted by anyone else on the discussion board.

• Questions on next lecture's material
  1. None.