Measuring Synchronisation and Scheduling Overheads in OpenMP
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| Overheads due to synchronisation and loop scheduling are an important factor in determining the performance of shared memory parallel programs. We present set of benchmarks to measure these classes of overhead for language constructs in OpenMP. Results are presented for three diierent hardware platforms, each with its own implementation of OpenMP. Signiicant diierences are observed, which suggest possible means of improving performance.
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