An Exercise on parallel programming and object oriented design

Question

Hi,

I am trying to self-study both object oriented design and parallel programming using the following books:

• "agile software development" by Robert C. Martin
• Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Patterns with Java"
• "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming" Maurice Herlihy
• "Programming Massively Parallel Processors" by David B. Kirk

But to practice I need to work on some project. Can you please help me finding a project where I can practice both these skills. I am looking for a project which involves both working with design patterns (and basic OOP principles) but also some heavy parallelizable algorithms.

Answer 1

Writing a server is a good real-world test of parallel programming skills.

Answer 2

Almost any project of more-than-basic-complexity will benefit from parallelisation so I suggest that you pick whatever most interests you. The (near-)universality of multicore processors means that you should not confine yourself to those types of program which have traditionally been implemented on parallel computers.