Mountain View: The C++17 Parallel Algorithms

One of the major library features in C++17 is a parallel algorithms library (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm) (formerly the Parallelism Technical Specification v1 (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/parallelism)). The parallel algorithms library has both parallel versions of the existing algorithms in the standard library and a handful of new algorithms inspired by common patterns from parallel programming (such as std::reduce (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/reduce) and std::transform_reduce (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/transform_reduce)).

We’ll talk about what’s in the parallel algorithms library, and how to utilize it in your code today. Also, we’ll discuss some exciting future developments relating to the parallel algorithms library which are targeted for the second version of the Parallelism Technical Specification – executors (http://cppcon.org/preview-algorithms-exceptions-games-2016/wg21.link/P0058), and asynchronous parallel algorithms (http://cppcon.org/preview-algorithms-exceptions-games-2016/wg21.link/P0361).

Bryce Adelstein Lelbach is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a US Department of Energy research facility. Working alongside a team of hardware engineers and scientists, he develops and analyzes new parallel programming models for exascale and post-Moore architectures. Bryce is one of the developers of the HPX C++ runtime system. He spent five years working on HPX while he was at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology. He also helped start the LLVMLinux initiative, and has occasionally contributed to the Boost C++ libraries. Bryce is an organizer for the C++Now and CppCon conferences as well as the Bay Area C++ user group, and he is passionate about C++ community development. He serves as LBNL's representative to the ISO committee for programming languages and the ISO C++ standard committee.

Join us after the talk at the Tied House for drinks and food!