If you’re new here and like what you read, you may want to subscribe to my RSS blog feed or free email updates. Thanks for visiting!Chris over at HPCAnswers has written a nice introductory article about locality optimization. He uses matrix multiplication as an example. The rest of this article assumes you have read his [...]
Larry O’Brien has written an introductory article on parallel programming with OpenMP on Windows and announced it in his blog. I enjoyed reading the article and think it is a really nice resource for people new to parallel programming. I would like to comment some parts of his article and since it does not have [...]
When reading any recent book about using C++ and parallel programming, you will probably be told that scoped locking is the greatest way to handle mutual exclusion and is in general the greatest invention since hot water. Yet, most of these writers are not talking about OpenMP, but about lower level threading systems. OpenMP [...]
Skimming through the activity logs of this blog, I can see that many people come here looking for information about pthread_setaffinity_np. I mentioned it briefly in my article about Opteron NUMA-effects, but barely touched it because I had found a more satisfying solution for my personal use (taskset). And while I do not have in [...]
Expanding on my earlier article about Why OpenMP is the way to go for parallel programming, I would like to point out a couple more strengths of OpenMP. And the best thing about this is: I do not have to do it myself this time, because OpenMP evangelist Ruud van der Pas has already done [...]
I guess it’s time once and for all to explain the reasons why I think OpenMP is the future of parallel programming, at least in the short term. I will start with the short version:
relatively high level of abstraction
performance
maturity
This article is about high-level-optimization, i.e. I will explain how I usually approach optimizing a program without going into the gory details. There are a million books and web pages about low-level-optimizations and the tricks involved out there, therefore I will not dive into that (could not possibly hope to cover this in a single [...]
