Question

Suppose I have an array with indices 0..n-1. Is there a way to choose which cells each thread would handle? e.g. thread 0 would handle cells 0 and 5 , thread 1 would handle cells 1 and 6 and so on..

Answer 1

You can even be more explicit:

#pragma omp parallel
{
   int nth = omp_get_num_threads();
   int ith = omp_get_thread_num();
   for (int i=ith; i<n; i+=nth)
   {
      // handle cell i.
   }
}

this should do exactly what you want: thread ith handles cell ith, ith+nth, ith+2*nth, ith+3*nth and so on.