Intel® Threading Building Blocks
Contributed by Mitchell Wade, St. Olaf College '11
Threading Building Blocks (TBB), created by Intel®, offers an approach to implementing parallelism in a C++ program. TBB is a library that helps programmers take advantage of multi-core processor performance without having to be an expert on threading. The library represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanisms for scalability and performance.
PPP Characteristics
Languages Supported: C++
OS Compatibility: Windows, Mac OS, Linux
Physical Resource Support: Local Multicore, Remote Multicore
Computational Model: Shared Memory
Context of Use
Intel Threading Building Blocks is utilized in the following modules:
Materials
Although there are a commercial releases of Threading Building Blocks, Intel® has made TBB available as open source (known as a "Commercial Aligned Release"). The open source version of TBB 3.0 Update 2 is currently available.
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