Jesús Royo

Further Details

This particle system was developed during my year in Sheffield Hallam University
It uses different multithreading techniques in order to have a better performance when
updating the particles. I developed this application in order to learn the intricacies
of multithreading and the STL library.

Features

• Multithreading with std::thread, std::future and std::async.
• Elastic collision between particles.
• Multithreading Critical Section with std::mutex.
• Factory Design Pattern implementation.
• Flyweight Design Pattern implementation.

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The application consists on a particle system in which a std::vector of particles
is updated using different CPU threads, the vector of threads is divided in
a number of parts that depends on the result of std::thread::hardware_concurrency().

After identifying the number of threads available, a std::vector of std::future is created.
This vector of threads is used with std::async, being each thread responsible for the update
function of a range of particles.

In the future, I might come back to this project and add double buffering in order to render asynchronously,
gaining an even better performance.