The Rust project was built using Cargo. The Cargo.toml files can be found at the following paths:

• ./version_1/Cargo.toml
• ./version_2/Cargo.toml

Specific objectives of the assignment are listed below -

1. Learn what type of programming can benefit from multi-core multithreaded programs.
2. Learn how to divide data for data parallelization to gain performance
3. Learn to create multithreaded programs in RUST
4. Learn to handle resource sharing in a multithreaded program
5. Learn File I/O in RUST

Full description can be found in the following pdf:

• Project1_sysprog_Fall23.pdf

1. Clone the repository
2. cd into the wanted versions /src/ directory
   1. Version 1 is the single threaded version found in the ./version_1/src directory
   2. Version 2 is the multithreaded version found in the ./version_2/src directory
3. run cargo run <data directory path> to run the program with the data directory path as the argument (e.g. ./data for the included test data directory)

Through the use of threading, a significant performance increase was achieved going from between 1.5-2ms to ~1ms. This was achieved by splitting the data into 4 chunks and processing each chunk in a separate thread. The threads were then joined and the results were written to the output file. The code for this can be found in the version 2 directory.