C++Now 2016

RaftLib aims to make authoring performant parallel applications in C++ simple. It utilizes the familiar semantics of stream operators to link multiple parallel actors into a single multi-threaded, streaming application. Stream processing is a compute paradigm that has been around for decades, yet until recently has failed to garner the same attention as other mainstream languages and libraries for parallel processing (e.g., C++, OpenMP, MPI). RaftLib aims to fully exploit the stream processing paradigm, enabling a full spectrum of streaming graph optimizations, while providing a platform for the exploration of integrability with legacy C/C++ code. RaftLib is built as a C++ template library, enabling programmers to utilize the robust C++ standard library, and legacy code, along with RaftLib’s parallelization framework. This session covers what RaftLib is, how it works, how to use it, and lastly we'll have some hands on application building.