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FF: additional OpenMP parallelizations in FAST.Farm#1310

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FF: additional OpenMP parallelizations in FAST.Farm#1310
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Feature or improvement description

  • Adds more OpenMP statements in FAST.Farm Subs.
    - NOTE: parallelizing FWrap_Init (i.e. the step that reads all the OpenFAST input file, can result in the same input files being read by multiple processors. The NWTC_IO had a check that would prevent this, I have removed it).
    - Parallelize WD_CalcOutp
    - Isolate the calls to AWAE_UpdateStates (run after all the OpenFAST Turbine Update states), (small slow down expected because before this step was done in parallel, but separating this calls makes the process cleaner and leaves room for OpenMP Optimization of AWAE_UpdateStates. This shouldn't matter if you have more turbines than cores. )
    - Parallelize the Reading of HighRes boxes in AWAE_UpdatesStates
  • Explicitly set the number of threads in the github workflow. Note: I have tested with 2,4, and 8 threads, all seem to work and don't seem to produce overhead from multithreading (but tests have few number of turbines)

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Fast.Farm

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@ebranlard ebranlard self-assigned this Nov 2, 2022
@ebranlard ebranlard added this to the v3.4.0 milestone Nov 2, 2022
@ebranlard ebranlard merged commit 4fbac48 into OpenFAST:dev Nov 7, 2022
@ebranlard ebranlard deleted the f/ff-openmp branch November 10, 2022 17:37
@rafmudaf rafmudaf mentioned this pull request Dec 19, 2022
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