topic What is being done can be in Intel® Fortran Compiler

In OpenMP, if I didn't initialize an array, the result will be wrong.

史_建鑫 — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:54:03 GMT

First the code. Througn judging a large number a prime, I test the OpenMP Parallel.

[fortran]

program main

    use portlib
    implicit none
    integer :: i, j
    integer :: x(10000) = 0 ! #1
    integer :: a(10000) = (/(i,i=100000001,100010000)/)
    real :: Elapsed_time

    Elapsed_time = TIMEF()
    !$omp parallel do
        do i = 1, 10000
            x(i) = is_prime(a(i))
        end do
    !$omp end parallel do
    Elapsed_time = TIMEF()
    write(*,*) ' Elapsed_time = ', Elapsed_time
    write(*,*) 'end'
contains

    function is_prime(num) result(prime)

        integer, intent(in) :: num
        integer :: prime
        integer :: i

        prime = num
        do i=2,int(num/2)
            if(mod(num,i)==0) then
                prime = 0
                exit
            end if
        end do

    end function is_prime

end program main

[/fortran]

Second, In line #1, now i initialize the x(10000) to 0, if i didn't do this, the result of x will be totally wrong, which you can see in the monitor. If I dellete all the OpenMP Directive and disable the setting in the proerties, even if i didn't initialize the x array ,the result will be correct.

I understand the share memory mechanism of the OpenMP, But i cannot understand these from this mechanism. Anyone can help me , thank you!

In your code, the

jimdempseyatthecove — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:58:56 GMT

In your code, the initialization of x to 0 is not required as all values in x are written by the do loop (at least they ought to be written). Your listed code above should run without error. The Intel compiler, with full optimizations, aggressivly removes code that generates values not used. As a test for this situation, following "Elapsed_time = TIMEF()", insert some code to use x. Note, in your actual program you would use values calculated. However for this test program, insert something to use x, such as: do i=1,10000 if(x(i) .lt. 0) write(*,*) i, x end do For information that you can provide to Intel support, modify your above code to initialize x array to -1. Run your test to see if you have any -1's, invalid primes, or missed primes.

thank you jimdempseyatthecove

史_建鑫 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:47:29 GMT

thank you jimdempseyatthecove. I test what you said, you are right. Oh your name is tooooooooooooooooo long :P But i still have a question. I check the properties of the project. the optimization is disable(/Od), why the intel compile still do the optimization for me ?

What is being done can be

jimdempseyatthecove — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:07:03 GMT

What is being done can be called elimination of dead code. Dead code historically has been defined as code in program that could never run (no flow into section of code). Intel (and others) have expanded the scope of the dead code elimination process to include computational results never used (and the code that produced the unused results). There may be an Intel internal definition (name) of this process. Users typically run into this situation when they construct a synthetic benchmark that fills in a results array that is not subsequently used, then report exceptionally good scaling of their code. Only to be embarrassed later when someone points out the folly of the test. Jim Dempsey (I forgot to sign the earlier post)