Everything about Intel Parallel Building Blocks

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Intel Parallel Building BlocksA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: The Conspirators HierarchyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: On task tree executor architectures based on intel parallel building blocksCited 2 times
4. Go sideways: Intel Array Building BlocksA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: CilkA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• On task tree executor architectures based on intel parallel building blocks

  Miroslav Popovic, Miodrag Djukic, Vladimir Marinkovic · 2013 · Computer Science and Information Systems · 2 citations

• A new implementation of itk::ImageToImageFilter for efficient parallelization of image processing algorithms using Intel Threading Building Blocks

  Amir Jaberzadeh, Benoit Scherrer, Simon Warfield · 2016 · The Insight Journal · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• Intel Threading Building BlocksJames Reinders · 2007
• Programming models for parallel computingPavan Balaji · 2015
• Prayer and actionErnest Edward Holmes · 1911
• A TOUR OF THE WORLDMalik Mansab Khan, Muhammad Rafique Abdul Aziz · 2025

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