# Writing parallel software

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Thematic CSC
- Speaker: Danilo Piparo
- Year: 2021
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3014828)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Parallel and Optimised Scientific Software - lecture 1

- Amdahl's and Gustafson's laws - Asynchronous execution - Finding concurrency, task vs. data parallelism - Using threading in C++ and Python, comparison with multi-process - Resource protection and thread safety - Locks, thread local storage, atomic operations.

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## Lectures

1. [Writing parallel software](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3014828/3c8a8c5cc42c), 1 h 1 min (CERN's player)