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Foil 56 Jacobi Iteration: OpenMP Mapping

From Designing and Building Parallel Programs 2: openMP Shared Memory Programming Language DoD Modernization Tutorial -- 1995-1998. by Ian Foster, Gina Goff, Ehtesham Hayder, Chuck Koelbel(Some foils prepared by Kuck & Associates, Inc.)
Minimize forking and synchronization overhead
  • One parallel region at highest possible level
  • Mark outermost possible loop for work sharing
Keep each processor working on the same data
  • Consistent schedule for DO loops
  • Trust underlying system not to migrate threads for no reason
Lay out data to be contiguous
  • Column-major ordering in Fortran
  • Therefore, make dimension of outermost work-shared loop the column

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