[Omp] Automated tuning of omp pragmas?

[Christian Convey]

On 5/28/07, Tim Prince <n8tm at aol.com> wrote:
> christian.convey at gmail.com wrote:
> > I've noticed that OpenMP offers a number of pragmas with tunable
> > parameters such as chunk-size.  I imagine that in a program with many
> > OpenMP sections, this presents a very large tuning space.
> >
> > Has anyone looked at using an automated method (i.e. a stochastic
> > search) to search through the tuning space to look for values that
> > perform well on a given target system?
> >
> Don't 5 minutes usage of a search engine answer this question?
>

No, unfortunately.  If anyone could kindly point me in the right
direction, I'd be grateful.

Thanks,
Christian