[fpc-devel] Parallel Computing

[Michael Schnell]

> For a big vector operation the number of used threads should be
> adapted to the memory architecture, 
With the C #pragma opm_....  this can be done statically by the 
programmer using the "schedule" keyword, defining "chunks" (there seem 
to be more sophisticated ways using the "static" "dynamic" and "guided" 
keywords, but I am in no way an expert on this
> for computational intensive
> applications like Mandelbrot the number of threads must be adapted to
> the number of available virtual cores.

With the C #pragma opm_....  this is done automatically ("dynamic"). The 
OpenMP library seems to do this and assign the loop runs to the threads. 
This seems to be the default behavior.

-Michael