prime_openmp


prime_openmp, a C++ 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

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 MIT license

Languages:

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

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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 01 April 2020.