[fpc-devel] Parallel Computing

[Michael Schnell]

> Can you show a real-world program with source that significantly 
> benefits by using OpenMP (alone)?
>
A task that should benefit from multiple threads on an SMP system should 
be Matrix multiplication another is doing DSP-like things and FFT. Those 
are really common tasks when handling physical and mathematical 
calculations. All these feature independent outer loops that can be done 
as independent threads that only need synchronization when all are 
ready. Thus in GNU C a simple line "#pragma opm_parallel for" would be 
enough to run them in parallel via OpenMP.
 
It would be nice to compare the speed of such a program on a modern four 
core PC with and without this line. (Should be easy, but I don't have 
such a machine myself:( and I didn't ever do C for PC programs yet :) :) 
, but I'll see if I can find something somewhere....)

-Michael