DOI: 10.7256/2454-0714.2023.2.39801

Abstract: Parallel programming is a way of writing programs that can run in parallel on multiple processors or cores. This allows programs to process large amounts of data or perform more complex calculations in a reasonable amount of time than would be possible on a single processor. The advantages of parallel programming: increased performance, load sharing, processing large amounts of data, improved responsiveness, increased reliability. In general, parallel programming has many advantages that can help improve the performance and reliability of software systems, especially with the increasing complexity of computational tasks and data volumes. However, parallel programming can also have its own complexities related to synchronization management, data races, and other aspects that require additional attention and experience on the part of the programmer. When testing parallel programs, it is possible to get ambiguous results. For example, this can happen when we optimize concatenation of float- or double-type data by means of For or ForEach methods of the Parallel class. Such behavior of a program makes you doubt about the thread safety of the written code. Such a conclusion can be incorrect and premature. The article reveals a possible reason for ambiguity of the results received by a parallel program and offers a concise solution of the question.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0714.2023.1.38483

Abstract: The emergence of multicore architectures has extremely stimulated the area of parallel computing. However, developing a parallel program and manually paralleling inherited sequential program codes are time-consuming work. The programmer should have good skills in using parallel programming methods. This fact determines the relevance of the subject of the research – the development of a serial-to-parallel code translator. The article gives a review of existing solutions in the chosen direction of research and considers their advantages and disadvantages. The principle of formation of a syntactic tree which is based on JSON format (the text format of data exchange based on JavaScript) is offered and an example of formation of a syntactic tree on the basis of this principle is considered. The result of the work is an approach for building a program platform for translating sequential code into parallel code. The distinctive feature of the developed platform is the web-service, which potentially allows you to extend the translator with other programming languages. The interaction with the programming environment is realized by means of REST-requests (HTTP-requests designed to call remote procedures). The developed software platform consists of three modules: the query processing module, which provides interaction with external systems through REST-requests; the tree building module, which forms a syntax tree on the basis of the source program code; the code conversion module, which obtains parallel program code on the basis of the syntax tree.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0714.2022.4.39029

Abstract: When the first version of the .NET Framework was released, there was a pattern in enriched client applications that focused on message processing loops, where an embedded queue was used to pass execution units from worker threads. A generalized ISynchronizeInvoke solution was then developed in which the source thread could queue a delegate to the destination thread and, as an optional option, wait for that delegate to complete. After asynchronous page support was introduced into the ASP.NET architecture, the ISynchronizeInvoke pattern did not work because asynchronous ASP.NET pages are not mapped to a single thread. This was the reason for creating an even more generalized solution – SynchronizationContext, which is the subject of the research. The article uses practical examples to show how to update UI elements from worker threads without breaking thread-safety of the user application. Solutions proposed in this aspect are: using Beginlnvoke or Invoke methods to put this delegate into the UI thread message queue; capturing the UI thread synchronization context via the Current property of the SynchronizationContext class; using the deprecated BackgroundWorker class, which provides an implicit capture of the UI thread synchronization context. The peculiarity of implementation of the SynchronizationContext abstract class in ASP.NET platform is not left unnoticed. Practical recommendations on the use of marshalling mechanism on the example of development of multiclient chat with a centralized server are formulated.