Task-parallel hello world¶
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This program uses Chapel’s task parallel features to express an explicitly concurrent hello world program that utilizes multiple cores on a single locale (compute node).
First, we specify the number of tasks to create via a config
const. By default, set it to the runtime’s estimation of maximum
parallelism that the current locale (’here’) is capable of
executing (.maxTaskPar
).
config const numTasks = here.maxTaskPar;
Next, we create the specified number tasks using a coforall-loop. This is a parallel loop form that will create a distinct task per iteration.
This coforall-loop is iterating over the range 0..#numTasks
which represents the first numTasks integers starting at 0
(equivalent to 0..numTasks-1
). The result will be numTasks
iterations, each of which will be executed as a distinct parallel
task.
Each iteration prints out a message that is unique based on its value of tid. Due to the task parallelism, the messages may be printed in any order. However, the writeln() procedure will prevent finer-grained interleaving of the messages themselves.
coforall tid in 0..#numTasks do
writeln("Hello, world! (from task ", tid, " of ", numTasks, ")");
For further examples of using task parallelism, refer to examples/primers/taskParallel.chpl.