OpenMP basics
OpenMP programs accomplish parallelism exclusively through the use of threads. A thread of execution is the smallest unit of processing that can be scheduled by an operating system.Threads exist within the resources of a single process
. Without the process, they cease to exist. Typically, the number of threads match the number of machine processors/cores. However, the actual use of threads is up to the application.
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