Walking the Key Loop Nest

• Usually the outermost parallel loop

  • Ignore timestep and convergence loops
  • Ignore loops with few iterations
  • Ignore loops that call unimportant subroutines

• Don’t be put off by —

  • Loops that write shared data
  • Loops that step through linked lists
  • Loops with I/O

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