brain of mat kelcey http://matpalm.com/blog thoughts from a data scientist wannabe Blogofile hourly 1 openmp = easy multi threading http://matpalm.com/blog/2008/10/13/openmp-easy-multi-threading/ http://matpalm.com/blog/?p=12 openmp = easy multi threading openmp is a compiler library, available in gcc since v4.2, for giving hints to a compiler about where code can be parallelized.

say we have some code

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for(int i=0; i<HUGE_NUMBER; ++i)
  deadHardCalculation(i)

we can make this run on multi threaded by simply adding some pragmas

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#pragma omp parallel num_threads(4)
{
  #pragma omp for
  for(int i=0; i&lt;HUGE_NUMBER; ++i)
    deadHardCalculation(i);
}

compiling with -fopenmp will generate an app that splits the work of the for loop across 4 threads.

there’s support for dynamic / static scheduling, accumulators, all sorts

this tute is awesome.

it increased the speed of my shingling code by 350% on a quad core box with just the above two lines

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