Atlantis in Parallel

Author

Gorton, Bec (Environment, Hobart)

This is a collection of notes on work to make Atlantis run as a multithreading program.

C threading libraries.

Before we can do much investigation we need to select a library to play with. We need library that is platform independent

I want a data parallel algorithm with explicit parallelism.

Getting Started with OpenMP

We need gcc 4.3.3 so a new version needs to be downloaded and installed.

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