OpenMP clauses: firstprivate, lastprivate, ordered

There are three basic OpenMP clauses namely firstprivate, lastprivate and ordered.

firstprivate

firstprivate clause is used to:

• initialize a variable from the serial part of the code
• private clause doesn't initialize the variable

Example of firstprivate

j = jstart;
#pragma omp parallel for firstprivate(j)
{
   for(i=1; i<=n; i++){
      if(i == 1 || i == n)
         j = j + 1;
      a[i] = a[i] + j;
   }
}

lastprivate

lastprivate clause is used for:

• thread that executes the ending loop index copies its value to the master (serial) thread
• this gives the same result as serial execution

Example of lastprivate

#pragma omp parallel for lastprivate(x)
{
   for(i=1; i<=n; i++){
      x = sin( pi * dx * (float)i );
      a[i] = exp(x);
   }
}
lastx = x;

ordered

The ordered clause of OpenMP is used to:

• used when part of the loop must execute in serial order
• ordered clause plus an ordered directive

Example of ordered

#pragma omp parallel for private(myval) ordered
{
   for(i=1; i<=n; i++){
      myval = do_lots_of_work(i);
      #pragma omp ordered
      {
         printf("%d %d\n", i, myval);
      }
   }
}