OpenMP and Python

Question

I have experience in coding OpenMP for Shared Memory machines (in both C and FORTRAN) to carry out simple tasks like matrix addition, multiplication etc. (Just to see how it

Answer 1

There is a package called pymp, which the author described it as a package that brings OpenMP-like functionality to Python. I have tried using it, but with different use case: file processing. It worked. I think it is quite simple to use. Below is a sample taken from the GitHub page:

import pymp
ex_array = pymp.shared.array((100,), dtype='uint8')
with pymp.Parallel(4) as p:
    for index in p.range(0, 100):
        ex_array[index] = 1
        # The parallel print function takes care of asynchronous output.
        p.print('Yay! {} done!'.format(index))