Shared memory programming with OpenMP
Processes and threads
- Process: an instance of a running (or suspended) program
- Thread: a “light-weight” process
POSIX Threads
- also known as Pthreads
- standard for unix-like OS’s (can be linked with C programs)
Note
The rest of the lecture was spent showing real code examples, not posted/available (though, he said it was just AI generated code)