The point of the benchmark is to benchmark serial loops and automatic SIMD of the compilers, so no, parallelizing it doesn't make sense. In fact, Julia has nati

The point of the benchmark is to benchmark serial loops and automatic SIMD of the compilers, so no, parallelizing it doesn't make sense. In fact, Julia has native multithreaded and distributed parallelism (which can utilize MPI for the interconnects). It would be a separate test that would test native distributed parallelism, and that's not a very interesting test though since any language with these same constructs (so Julia, C++, Fortran) will all end up bandwidth limited at the same speed. This is something to give as a homework problem to students though since it's easy to demonstrate and teaches how to use the parallel constructs.