Welcome to the HPX Cookbook!

Contents:

• Section 1 : About this Document and the associated Git Repository
• Section 2 : Introduction to the Problem
  • Part I : Moore’s Law and “The Free Lunch is Over” problem
  • Part II : Some thoughts on Concurrency, Parallelism and Distributed Computing
    • A. Concurrency
    • B. Parallelism
    • C. Distributed Computing
• Section 3 : Scalability, Amdahls Law and the USL
  • Scalability
  • Amdahls Law
  • The Universal Scalability Law “USL”
  • Consequences of the USL for writing your application
• Section 4 : HPX Basics
  • Introduction to HPX
  • What can HPX do for you?
  • What can HPX NOT do for you
  • How does it work?
    • Parallelization
    • Concurrency
    • Distribution
• Section 5: Concepts needed to understand and leverage HPX
  • General Programming Concepts
  • C++ Concepts
  • HPX Concepts
• Section 6: HPX Parallel Task Execution
  • Calls into the runtime
  • Executors and Execution Policies
• Section 7: HPX Concurrency Management
  • Futures
  • Synchronous and Asynchronous Calls
• Section 8: HPX Distributed Computing
  • Locality
  • Component
  • Action
  • HPX Serialization and Transport
• Section 42 : A collection of HPX Recipes, HowTos and Drafts
  • HPX Action and Component Macros
  • HPX Other
  • Drafts
  • General C++