This topic only applies to Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel® MIC Architecture).
Several methods exist to override the default number of threads per core on the coprocessor.
Using the OpenMP* API
The OpenMP* API specification provides the following standard ways to change the desired number of threads on the coprocessor:
Calling the function
omp_set_num_threads(n)before the omp parallel regionUsing the clause
#pragma omp parallel num_threads(n)Setting the environment variable
OMP_NUM_THREADS=n
For more information, refer to the OpenMP* API Specification at http://www.openmp.org.
Using the Intel® Compiler
In addition to the standard methods that the OpenMP* API specification provides, listed below, you can use the environment variable MIC_ENV_PREFIX to define a custom-prefixed environment variable to control the number of OpenMP* threads on the coprocessor separately from the host CPU. For example, the following environment variable definitions set OMP_NUM_THREADS on both the CPU and the coprocessor, but with different values.
OMP_NUM_THREADS=8 ABC_OMP_NUM_THREADS=124 MIC_ENV_PREFIX=ABC
Direct calls on the coprocessor to APIs in libiomp5.so to establish a specific runtime setting override any setting previously set by a CPU environment variable that is replicated on the coprocessor.