Re: [Boost-users] General design question about threading/concurrency

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] General design question about threading/concurrency
From: Andrew Holden (aholden_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-25 10:24:38

On Sunday, October 24, 2010 6:08 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Julien Martin wrote:
>
>> I am writing a program that needs to run N simulations with N >10
000.
>
> This sounds a lot like Monte Carlo.  Are each of the N simulations
> essentially independent of each other, until perhaps all N complete
> and then some additional processing occurs?  If so, then instead of
> using threads,
>
>> Obviously, I cannot instantiate N threads at the same time but I
cannot
>> run the simulations sequentially either. Can anyone please advise me
>> how to design my program using the boost threading library and
concepts please?
>
> I'd use MPI if you can, but I don't know enough about your application
domain.

I know this isn't a boost solution, but have you looked into Intel's
Threading Building Blocks? (found at
http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/ )