OpenMP and CPU affinity

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Yes, named calls will work to set thread affinity. The only problem is to fix thread number and to set right affinity in right thread (you can try using static scheduling of for loop for known number of threads).

As I know, almost every openmp allows to set affinity via environment. The name of environment variable varies (it was not standartized some time ago).
I use http://www.spec.org/omp2001/results/omp2001.html page to find openMP implementation and the will search for specific environment variable name. Affinity is set in ~half of specOMP results. There are some additional OpenMP performance-tuning settings in results too.

E.g. For intel compiler the variable is

 export KMP_AFFINITY=compact,0

For sun compiler:

 export SUNW_MP_PROCBIND=TRUE

For gcc (pre-openmp 3.1) 

 export GOMP_CPU_AFFINITY=0-63

where 63 is maximum CPU number (when counted from 0)

And newer OpenMP Standard, version 3.1 defines environment variable OMP_PROC_BIND (see section 4.4) which is standardized way of setting affinity in OpenMP. Usage is:

 export OMP_PROC_BIND=true

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