Motivation for Worksharing

• Most programs spend lots of time in loops

• What if we didn’t have worksharing constructs

  • Start parallel region
  • Write code to distribute the iterations of the loop based on the thread id

• Gets tedious even for simple code fragments

  • Example: simple loop

do i=1,N

a(i)=a(i)**2

enddo

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