Dividing loop iterations among threads

Question

I recently wrote a small number-crunching program that basically loops over an N-dimensional grid and performs some calculation at each point.

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Answer 1

As I understand it, OpenMP was made just for what you are trying to do, although I have to admit I have not used it yet myself. Basically it seems to boil down to just including a header and adding a pragma clause.

You could probably also use Intel's Thread Building Blocks Library.