Data Scoping (OpenMP)

This video provides an overview on managing one of the most challenging parts of OpenMP: Data Scoping. It discusses the differences between private, firstprivate, lastprivate and shared variables and shows how to implement a scalable reduction.

Video

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Quiz

1. What is the default data scoping of variable in a parallel region when this variable is declared before a parallel region?

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2. What is the data scoping of the variables a, b, c and d in the following code snippet in the parallel region? What is printed when executing the code?
int a = 0;
int b = 23;
int c = -3;
# pragma omp parallel num_threads(2) private(a) reduction(+:c)
{

int d = omp_get_thread_num();
a = 42 + d;
# pragma omp critical
b = 1;
c += a + b;

}
c = c / 2;
printf("a=%d, b=%d, c=%d\n", a, b, c)

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3. The following code snippet is wrong due to a missing data sharing attribute. How can you fix it?
int i, int s = 0;
# pragma omp parallel for
for (i = 1; i < 100; i++){

s = s + a[i];

}

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