FastFlow is a structured parallel programming framework targeting shared
memory multicores. Its layered design and the optimized implementation of the
communication mechanisms used to implement the FastFlow streaming networks
provided to the application programmer as algorithmic skeletons support the
development of efficient fine grain parallel applications. FastFlow is
available (open source) at SourceForge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mc-fastflow/). This work introduces FastFlow
programming techniques and points out the different ways used to parallelize
existing C/C++ code using FastFlow as a software accelerator. In short: this is
a kind of tutorial on FastFlow.Comment: 49 pages + cove
