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Parallelism Exposed by Compilers on AMD
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Several compilers for AMD multiprocessor systems provide additional hooks to allow automatic
parallelization of otherwise serial programs. Several compilers also support the OpenMP API for
parallel programming. For details about support for auto parallelization and OpenMP in various
compilers, see the references [4], [14], [15] and [16].
Chapter 3
Performance Guidelines for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™
Analysis and Recommendations
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