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Advisor Intel® Advisor XE, analysis tool for determining potential benefits from various approached to adding parallelism without having to write, debug, and test code in order to study the benefits.
affinity Specification of methods to associate a particular software thread to a particular hardware thread usually with the objective of getting better or more predictable performance. Affinity specifications include the concept of being maximally spread apart to reduce contention, or to pack tightly (compact) to minimize distances for communication. OpenMP supports a rich set of affinity controls at various levels from abstract to full manual control. Fortran 2008 does not specify controls, but Intel reuses the OpenMP controls for “do ...
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