Fastflow tutorial

FastFlow is a structured parallel programming framework targeting shared memory multicores. Its layered design and the optimized im-plementation 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 par-allel applications. FastFlow is available (open source) at SourceForge1. 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.