The ____________ directive ensures that a specific memory location is updated atomically, rather than exposing it to the possibility of multiple, simultaneous writing threads.

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• When a thread reaches a _____________ directive, it creates a team of threads and becomes the master of the team.
• _____________ refers to the ability of multiple process (or threads) to share code, resources or data in such a way that only one process has access to shared object at a time.
• The ______________ specifies that the iterations of the for loop should be executed in parallel by multiple threads.
• Which directive must precede the directive: #pragma omp sections (not necessarily immediately)?
• _______________ Function returns the number of threads that are currently active in the parallel section region.
• In OpenMP, the collection of threads executing the parallel block the original thread and the new thread is called a ____________
• In OpenMP, assigning iterations to threads is called ________________
• What are the algorithms for identifying which subtrees we assign to the processes or threads __________
• In MPI, a ______________ can be used to represent any collection of data items in memory by storing both the types of the items and their relative locations in memory.
• A ____________ in OpenMP is just some text that modifies a directive.