PRIME_OPENMP\ Count Primes Using OpenMP {#prime_openmp-count-primes-using-openmp align=”center”} =========================
PRIME_OPENMP is a C++ program which counts the number of primes between 1 and N, using OpenMP to carry out the calculation in parallel.
The algorithm is completely naive. For each integer I, it simply checks whether any smaller J evenly divides it. The total amount of work for a given N is thus roughly proportional to 1/2*N\^2.
This program is mainly a starting point for investigations into parallelization.
Here are the counts of the number of primes for some selected values of N:
N Pi(N), Number of Primes ——– ————————- 1 0 2 1 4 2 8 4 16 6 32 11 64 18 128 31 256 54 512 97 1024 172 2048 309 4096 564 8192 1028 16384 1900 32768 3512 65536 6542 131072 12251
The following results were observed for the elapsed time on a machine that had 2 cores:
N Pi(N) Time (1 Thread) Time (2 Threads) Time (4 Threads) ——– ——- —————– —————— —————— 16384 1900 0.377 0.293 0.220 32768 3512 1.392 1.061 0.824 65536 6542 5.221 3.883 3.012 131072 12251 19.727 14.592 11.672
In the BASH shell, the program could be run with 2 threads using the commands:
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=2
./prime_openmp
The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.
PRIME_OPENMP is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version.
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Last revised on 01 June 2010.