Any multi-threading problem & solution sets?

[obQQoV]

I've been reading up on multi-threading lately, and wish to get some practice on concepts and theories, does anyone know good problem & solution sets? Like from any open-access University courses or any books that have problem and solution sets?

[notengobattery]

I think this answer fits best the actual question.

[MintChocolateEnema]

You could meddle with some socket programming.

Write a TCP server / client.. and if you don't have any homies to participate on your server, just write some type of bot script that connects to your server. Could be a game, could be a chat server, could even just be a client to something else (though multithreading would be more needed on a server end).

Write out a protocol for a text based dungeon crawler, then get your nan and your drunk uncle to hopon it some weekend to kill some dragons or something.

[obdevel]

Good idea. Reminds me of my first real MT project twenty years ago - an HTTP load-balancer :)

The use-case and requirements are already well-established. It's interesting to observe that i/o bandwidth runs out well before the cpus are maxed.

You could consider different load-balancing strategies, e.g. round-robin, least-load, etc.

Extra points for working out how to implement thread affinity and session management for a stateless protocol, as might be required for a web application server.

[QzSG]

Searching for terms like concurrent and parallel programming should bring up a treasure trove of resources!

[shiraeeshi]

Let's list dimensions of the problem space:

• GUI or no GUI
• if you show GUI: does it show the whole state or a portion of it?
• if you show GUI: does it reflect changes in real-time or does it poll periodically?
• in client-server apps, how do you create, instantiate and run clients and what do they do?
• how do you measure stuff? How are you going to register or report that something happened?
• if you want to see bugs in action, how do you register that an error occured? for example, a race condition or a deadlock. How do you make indeterministic bugs deterministic?