diff --git a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/hello_world.ipynb b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/hello_world.ipynb
index 9479f962..b9bce28d 100644
--- a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/hello_world.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/hello_world.ipynb
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 4,
+   "execution_count": 3,
    "id": "a37a13d4-fc82-496e-8f42-9e718a8c2aa0",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -44,16 +44,24 @@
      "name": "stdout",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "max threads: 8\n",
-      "Hello World from thread = 0 with 8 threads\n",
-      "Hello World from thread = 3 with 8 threads\n",
-      "Hello World from thread = 4 with 8 threads\n",
-      "Hello World from thread = 2 with 8 threads\n",
-      "Hello World from thread = 7 with 8 threads\n",
-      "Hello World from thread = 1 with 8 threads\n",
-      "Hello World from thread = 6 with 8 threads\n",
-      "Hello World from thread = 5 with 8 threads\n",
-      "all done, with hopefully 8 threads\n"
+      "max threads: 16\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 0 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 3 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 13 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 4 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 12 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 1 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 14 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 15 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 8 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 6 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 11 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 5 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 7 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 10 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 9 with 16 threads\n",
+      "Hello World from thread = 2 with 16 threads\n",
+      "all done, with hopefully 16 threads\n"
      ]
     }
    ],
@@ -64,7 +72,7 @@
  ],
  "metadata": {
   "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "C++17 (xcpp+OpenMP)",
+   "display_name": "C++17 + OpenMP",
    "language": "cpp",
    "name": "xcpp17-omp"
   },
diff --git a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/linked_list.ipynb b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/linked_list.ipynb
index 2f5574d1..ca914de1 100644
--- a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/linked_list.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/linked_list.ipynb
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 5,
+   "execution_count": 4,
    "id": "b16b1e8a-8831-4b8d-9d57-09deeaaa88ee",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 6,
+   "execution_count": 5,
    "id": "0ef8af6c-1d6f-4c68-84bc-3dd1d8092b06",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 7,
+   "execution_count": 6,
    "id": "1fa0307d-fdc9-4503-95cb-1c6448791354",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 8,
+   "execution_count": 7,
    "id": "03acb599-9329-49ff-8aff-c0902adb6c3c",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 9,
+   "execution_count": 8,
    "id": "f2dfb41b-e55f-43c0-b7f6-546a1697acb1",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 10,
+   "execution_count": 9,
    "id": "353e5dfd-fcae-43e6-97e3-ec98070811a1",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -188,14 +188,14 @@
       "Process linked list\n",
       "  Each linked list node will be processed by function 'processwork()'\n",
       "  Each ll node will compute 5 fibonacci numbers beginning with 38\n",
-      "Threads:      8\n",
+      "Threads:      16\n",
       "38 : 39088169\n",
       "39 : 63245986\n",
       "40 : 102334155\n",
       "41 : 165580141\n",
       "42 : 267914296\n",
       "43 : 433494437\n",
-      "Compute Time: 2.617225 seconds\n"
+      "Compute Time: 3.560749 seconds\n"
      ]
     }
    ],
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
  ],
  "metadata": {
   "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "C++17 (xcpp+OpenMP)",
+   "display_name": "C++17 + OpenMP",
    "language": "cpp",
    "name": "xcpp17-omp"
   },
diff --git a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/mandel.ipynb b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/mandel.ipynb
index 2d302a05..d8d19e54 100644
--- a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/mandel.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/mandel.ipynb
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 4,
+   "execution_count": 3,
    "id": "d89dd57c-fe19-4233-a33a-df9b24fae98a",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 5,
+   "execution_count": 4,
    "id": "5c35c479-2f79-46b7-bc66-24be6b1694e0",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 6,
+   "execution_count": 5,
    "id": "ea116fef-7d05-4e29-97a1-55c85c7241d8",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 7,
+   "execution_count": 6,
    "id": "39cf129c-8106-4e67-a2f1-1a7fff17cd38",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
      "name": "stdout",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Area of Mandlebrot set =   3.80247750 +/-   0.00380248\n",
+      "Area of Mandlebrot set =   5.23447313 +/-   0.00523447\n",
       "Correct answer should be around 1.510659\n"
      ]
     }
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
  ],
  "metadata": {
   "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "C++17 (xcpp+OpenMP)",
+   "display_name": "C++17 + OpenMP",
    "language": "cpp",
    "name": "xcpp17-omp"
   },
diff --git a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/openmp-demo.ipynb b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/openmp-demo.ipynb
index 9705a587..2d6d4ca7 100644
--- a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/openmp-demo.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/openmp-demo.ipynb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 4,
+   "execution_count": 3,
    "id": "53fb7656-b72e-42bc-ade7-2ae2077142da",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -42,12 +42,20 @@
      "name": "stdout",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Hello World!Hello World!\n",
-      "Hello World!Hello World!\n",
       "Hello World!\n",
-      "\n",
       "Hello World!\n",
-      "\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
+      "Hello World!\n",
       "Hello World!\n",
       "Hello World!\n"
      ]
@@ -65,7 +73,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 5,
+   "execution_count": 4,
    "id": "efcdfdb6-a60b-46af-8194-75ef9cc0e27f",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -73,14 +81,22 @@
      "name": "stdout",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (34)\n",
-      "Hello World! (7)\n",
-      "0)\n",
-      "2Hello World! (6))\n",
-      "\n",
+      "Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (12Hello World! (1)\n",
       ")\n",
+      "9)\n",
+      "11)\n",
+      "Hello World! (14)\n",
+      "Hello World! (13)\n",
+      "Hello World! (7)\n",
       "Hello World! (5)\n",
-      "Hello World! (1)\n"
+      "Hello World! (6)\n",
+      "8)\n",
+      "Hello World! (3)\n",
+      "Hello World! (4)\n",
+      "0)\n",
+      "Hello World! (10)\n",
+      "Hello World! (15)\n",
+      "Hello World! (2)\n"
      ]
     }
    ],
@@ -96,7 +112,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 6,
+   "execution_count": 5,
    "id": "d86a9efa-ba28-4cb6-bbfc-abc00ee63506",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -104,14 +120,22 @@
      "name": "stdout",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Hello World! (Hello World! (34))\n",
-      "Hello World! (0)\n",
+      "Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (Hello World! (9Hello World! (8)Hello World! (\n",
+      "Hello World! ()\n",
+      "11)\n",
+      "1)\n",
       "Hello World! (2)\n",
-      "Hello World! (Hello World! (1)\n",
-      "\n",
-      "7)Hello World! (\n",
-      "6)\n",
+      "3)\n",
+      "Hello World! (7)\n",
+      "Hello World! (6)\n",
+      "Hello World! (15)\n",
+      "Hello World! (10)\n",
+      "14)\n",
       "Hello World! (5)\n",
+      "0)\n",
+      "Hello World! (4)\n",
+      "13)\n",
+      "12)\n",
       "This is another message! (0)\n",
       "Goodbye World! (0)\n",
       "Goodbye World! (1)\n"
@@ -137,7 +161,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 7,
+   "execution_count": 6,
    "id": "5557e01a-7c7d-4b54-8545-962ad11027df",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -145,12 +169,12 @@
      "name": "stdout",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Initialize a[] time: 0.588681\n",
-      "Initialize b[] time: 0.513927\n",
-      "Add arrays time: 1.58928\n",
-      "Average result time: 0.637053\n",
+      "Initialize a[] time: 0.341905\n",
+      "Initialize b[] time: 0.392285\n",
+      "Add arrays time: 0.401034\n",
+      "Average result time: 0.191882\n",
       "Average: 5e+08\n",
-      "Total time: 3.33191\n"
+      "Total time: 1.32776\n"
      ]
     }
    ],
@@ -203,7 +227,7 @@
  ],
  "metadata": {
   "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "C++17 (xcpp+OpenMP)",
+   "display_name": "C++17 + OpenMP",
    "language": "cpp",
    "name": "xcpp17-omp"
   },
diff --git a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/pi_integral.ipynb b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/pi_integral.ipynb
index 37a44ff6..1d25c4d3 100644
--- a/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/pi_integral.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/openmp-notebooks/pi_integral.ipynb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 4,
+   "execution_count": 3,
    "id": "f3c10995-6f29-4d71-9e61-1993ca9d1cc9",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 5,
+   "execution_count": 4,
    "id": "0f84442a-d947-4860-bd3c-aeeea963b419",
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
@@ -70,18 +70,18 @@
      "name": "stdout",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Num threads available: 8\n",
+      "Num threads available: 16\n",
       "Num threads allocated for this run: 1\n",
-      "pi is 3.141593 in 0.179501 seconds using 1 threads\n",
+      "pi is 3.141593 in 0.965932 seconds using 1 threads\n",
       "\n",
       "Num threads allocated for this run: 2\n",
-      "pi is 3.141592 in 0.184605 seconds using 2 threads\n",
+      "pi is 3.141593 in 0.536038 seconds using 2 threads\n",
       "\n",
       "Num threads allocated for this run: 3\n",
-      "pi is 3.141593 in 0.097145 seconds using 3 threads\n",
+      "pi is 3.141594 in 0.484255 seconds using 3 threads\n",
       "\n",
       "Num threads allocated for this run: 4\n",
-      "pi is 3.141593 in 0.071473 seconds using 4 threads\n",
+      "pi is 3.141593 in 0.480806 seconds using 4 threads\n",
       "\n"
      ]
     }
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
  ],
  "metadata": {
   "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "C++17 (xcpp+OpenMP)",
+   "display_name": "C++17 + OpenMP",
    "language": "cpp",
    "name": "xcpp17-omp"
   },
diff --git a/src/xinterpreter.cpp b/src/xinterpreter.cpp
index 280e60c0..158490dc 100644
--- a/src/xinterpreter.cpp
+++ b/src/xinterpreter.cpp
@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ void* createInterpreter(const Args &ExtraArgs = {}) {
       )
       != ClangArgs.end())
   {
-      Cpp::LoadLibrary("libomp");
+      if (!Cpp::LoadLibrary("libomp"))
+      {
+          std::cerr << "Failed to load libomp)" << std::endl;
+      }
   }
   return res;
 }