openmp Loop parallelism in OpenMP Typical example in C
Example
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <omp.h>
#define N 1000000
int main() {
double sum = 0;
double tbegin = omp_get_wtime();
#pragma omp parallel for reduction( +: sum )
for ( int i = 0; i < N; i++ ) {
sum += cos( i );
}
double wtime = omp_get_wtime() - tbegin;
printf( "Computing %d cosines and summing them with %d threads took %fs\n",
N, omp_get_max_threads(), wtime );
return sum;
}
In this example, we just compute 1 million cosines and sum their values in parallel. We also time the execution to see whether the parallelization has any effect on the performance. Finally, since we do measure the time, we have to make sure that the compiler won't optimize away the work we've done, so we pretend using the result by just returning it.
