OpenMP$$^{\textregistered }$$ Runtime Instrumentation for Optimization

The OpenMP (The OpenMP name is a registered trademark of the OpenMP Architecture Review Board.) application programming interface provides a simple way for programmers to write parallel programs that are portable between machines and vendors. Programmers parallelize their programs to obtain higher performance, but, as the number of cores per processor increases, taking advantage of parallelism efficiently becomes more difficult. To facilitate efficient parallelization and avoid poor utilization of machine resources, programmers need to know where an application is spending time and what factors hinder scalability.