Designing and debugging scalable multithreaded applications

Prerequisites

To get the most from this course, you should be able to:

• Use standard HP OpenVMS or HP Tru64 UNIX commands
• Program in ANSI Standard C
• Use a debugger
• Develop and understand basic programs using POSIX Pthreads

Audience

This course is designed for software engineers and customer support personnel who develop and support multithreaded software applications on the HP Tru64 UNIX and HP OpenVMS operating systems. The audience should be familiar with application development in at least one of these environments and should have some experience with threads.

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Course outline

• Introduction to threads
• Threads and multithreading concepts
• Models for thread usage
• Additional thread challenges
• Pthreads and the POSIX threads library
• Thread management essentials
• Thread management
• Introduction to visual threads
• POSIX synchronization
• Synchronization motivation
• Mutexes
• Condition variables
• Memory visibility between threads
• Visual threads and synchronization
• Advanced thread programming
• Attribute objects named objects
• Thread attributes
• Read-write locks
• One-time initialization
• Thread-specific data
• Thread-safe and re-entrant functions
• Two compound objects: semaphores and threshold barriers
• Visual threads and application analysis and tuning
• Thread exceptions, termination and cancellation
• Thread cancellation
• Exception handling
• Thread scheduling
• Scheduling
• Two-level scheduling
• Threads and client/server computing
• Design of a multithreaded server
• HP Tru64 UNIX and HP OpenVMS considerations
• Tru64 UNIX considerations
• HP OpenVMS considerations
• Linux considerations
• NUMA systems
• Thread debugging and profiling
• Avoid debugging
• Using ladebug on HP Tru64 UNIX
• Profiling multithreaded applications
• Using visual threads