prime_openmp


prime_openmp, a FORTRAN77 code 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:
NPi(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:
NPi(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 19.72714.59211.672

Usage:

In the BASH shell, the program could be run with 2 threads using the commands:

        export OMP_NUM_THREADS=2
        ./prime_openmp
      

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

prime_openmp is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version.

Related Data and Programs:

prime_openmp_test

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Reference:

  1. Eratosthenes,
    A Method For Finding Prime Numbers,
    Papyrus 487.
  2. Michael Quinn,
    Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP,
    McGraw-Hill, 2004,
    ISBN13: 978-0071232654,
    LC: QA76.73.C15.Q55.

Source Code:


Last revised on 03 November 2023.