Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++

Chapter 3. Dividing C++ Programs into Multiple Tasks

	“Hence, whatever parallel processes may be going on at a lower (neural) level, at the symbolic level the human mind is fundamentally a serial machine, accomplishing its work through temporal sequences of processes, each typically requiring hundreds of milliseconds for execution.”
	--Herbert A Simon, The Machine As Mind

In this Chapter

• Process: A Definition

• Anatomy of a Process

• Process States

• Process Scheduling

• Context Switching

• Creating a Process

• Terminating a Process

• Process Resources

• What are Asynchronous and Synchronous Processes?

• Dividing the Program into Tasks

• Summary

Concurrency in a C++ program is accomplished by factoring your program into either multiple processes or multiple threads. While there ...