Hi all. I've been learning programming from the web for almost 2 years now and this'll be my first post ever on DaniWeb (or any forum ever). I have no experience with parallel programming but read about the simplicity of working with OpenMP, and that's what I need. Something that will make my code parallel with little to no effort on my part so I can get my work done asap.
I've got a program that works perfectly fine in serial, so I hoped I could just drop "#pragma omp parallel for" on top of a for loop and solve all my problems. Unfortunately, as soon as I did that, my code suddenly produced the runtime error "Expression: vector subscript out of range". Here's the code (lines that trigger the problem have //----->PROBLEM next to them):
#pragma omp parallel
{
#pragma omp parallel for
for (i = 0; i < pars[1]; i++) // vector <int> pars(some size), pars[1] > 0
{
for (j = 0; j < pars[1]; j++)
{
if (YOB[i][0] > YOB[j][0]) // compare two doubles in 2D vector (irrelevant)
{
dist = L2norm(depop[i],depop[j]); // double dist (irrelevant)
beta = (beta0-betamin) * exp(-gama*dist*dist) + betamin; // double beta (irrelevant)
if (beta > 0.9)
{
continue;
}
//update each component of position vector
for (d = 0; d < pars[0]; d++)
{
dom = domain(d,pars[3]); // vector <double> dom(2) (irrelevant)
tempop[i][d] = tempop[i][d]*(1-beta) + depop[j][d]*beta
+ arfa*(ran2(&idum)-0.5)*(dom[1]-dom[0]); //----->PROBLEM
//ENFORCE DOMAIN
if (tempop[i][d] > dom[1]) //----->PROBLEM
tempop[i][d] = dom[1]; //----->PROBLEM
if (tempop[i][d] < dom[0]) //----->PROBLEM
tempop[i][d] = dom[0]; //----->PROBLEM
}//end d
}//end if - compare objective functions
else
{
if ( (i != bi) && (i != j) )
{
//randomly update each component of position vector
for (d = 0; d < pars[0]; d++)
{
dom = domain(d,pars[3]);
tempop[i][d] += arfa*arfa*(ran2(&idum)-0.5)*(dom[1]-dom[0]); //----->PROBLEM
//ENFORCE DOMAIN
if (tempop[i][d] > dom[1]) //----->PROBLEM
tempop[i][d] = dom[1]; //----->PROBLEM
if (tempop[i][d] < dom[0]) //----->PROBLEM
tempop[i][d] = dom[0]; //----->PROBLEM
}
}
}
}//end j
}//end i
}//end pragma omp parallel
Recall, this program works perfectly fine as soon as I comment out the OpenMP code.
For the "pragma" commands, I've tried all sorts of possible combinations:
over the outer for loop
pragma... for
pragma... for private (i)
pragma... for firstprivate(j) lastprivate(i)over the inner for loop (with nothing on the outer loop)
pragma... for private (j)
This bug appears to occur constistently at the end of the loop (the very last iteration). I understand that loop-carried dependencies can be a problem. Unfortunately, the equation is what it is. But I absolutely must parallelize this code because that inner loop is making my program run way too slow. Thank you for your help!