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Posted 2010/10/22

OpenMP Hello World

OpenMP hello world.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <omp.h>

main ()  {

int nthreads, tid;

/* Fork a team of threads with each thread having a private tid variable */
#pragma omp parallel private(tid)
  {

  /* Obtain and print thread id */
  tid = omp_get_thread_num();
  printf("Hello World from thread = %d\n", tid);

  /* Only master thread does this */
  if (tid == 0) 
    {
    nthreads = omp_get_num_threads();
    printf("Number of threads = %d\n", nthreads);
    }

  }  /* All threads join master thread and terminate */

}

Since GCC supports OpenMP natively now you don't have to do anything crazy to compile this code:

$ gcc -fopenmp hello.c -o hello