OMP For parallel thread ID hello world

Question

I'm trying to get started with using basic OpenMP functionality in C. My basic understanding of 'omp parallel for' leads me to believe the following should distribute the following iterations of the loop between threads and should execute concurrently. The output I am getting is as follows. Code Below. Is there something subtle I am missing in my hello world example?

Hello World from omp thread 0 Hello World from omp thread 0 Hello World from omp thread 0 Hello World from omp thread 0 Hello World from omp thread 0 Hello World from omp thread 0 etc..

 int HelloFunc()
{
    int i;
    int numthreads = 8;
#pragma omp parallel for default(none) num_threads(numthreads) private(i)
    for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
    {
        int tid = omp_get_thread_num();
        printf("Hello world from omp thread %d\n", tid);
    }
    return -1;
}

int main()
{
    int result = HelloFunc();
}

Solution 1

#include <omp.h>
#include <stdio.h>


 int HelloFunc()
{
    int i;
    int numthreads = 8;
#pragma omp parallel for default(none) num_threads(numthreads) private(i)
    for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
    {
        int tid = omp_get_thread_num();
        printf("Hello world from omp thread %d\n", tid);
    }
    return -1;
}

int main()
{
    HelloFunc();

  return 0;
}

then compile :

gcc t.c -fopenmp -Wall

and run :

./a.out

output :

Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 7
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 3
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 0
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 6
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 5
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 1
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 4
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 2
Hello world from omp thread 2

Solution 2

Your computer is likely only using one thread to run this program. OMP doesn't force it to run with multiple threads, it just tells the compiler that it can and sets up the necessary environment to make it happen.

There is no way to force OMP to do something in more threads than it would otherwise do. And you wouldn't want to since OMP automatically sets everything up to make run the fastest it can.