AMD ATHLON 64 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Analysis and Recommendations

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Performance Guidelines for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™

ccNUMA Multiprocessor Systems

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Rev. 3.00

June 2006

3.6

Parallelism Exposed by Compilers on AMD
ccNUMA Multiprocessor Systems

Several compilers for AMD multiprocessor systems provide additional hooks to allow automatic
parallelization of otherwise serial programs. Several compilers also support the OpenMP API for
parallel programming. For details about support for auto parallelization and OpenMP in various
compilers, see the references [

4

], [

14

], [

15

] and [

16

].

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