Re: Starting an OpenMP parallel section is extremely slow on a hyper-threaded Nehalem

2010-02-11 Thread Edwin Bennink
Thanks Tim, I thought that the gcc list was the most appropriate one regarding the gomp implementation, but I'll post this question on the gcc-help list. By the way, Ubuntu 9.10 is the latest version (dd Oct. 2009). HTT works fine for daily use, but massive parallel applications show some odd

Re: Starting an OpenMP parallel section is extremely slow on a hyper-threaded Nehalem

2010-02-11 Thread Tim Prince
On 2/11/2010 2:00 AM, Edwin Bennink wrote: Dear gcc list, I noticed that starting an OpenMP parallel section takes a significant amount of time on Nehalem cpu's with hyper-threading enabled. If you think a question might be related to gcc, but don't know which forum to use, gcc-help is more