Parallel Programming with OpenMP
March 7th, 2010
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The geek-chic OpenMP logo.
This is a brief intro to using OpenMP for parallel programming (with what I’ve discovered about it so far). We’ll implement a Mandelbrot Set renderer that runs multicore, and throw in a couple aside-goodies as well (basic supersampling and Mandelbrot continuous coloring).
First, let’s talk parallel programming. The basic idea here is that we have some task that can be split up into parts, and we hand off each of these parts to different CPUs.
