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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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
].