In the Media

December 1998

• Dual-level Parallel Analysis of Harbor Wave Response Using MPI and OpenMP wins "Most Effective Engineering Methodology" Award for the High Performance Computing Challenge at SC'98

November 1998

• From the OpenMP ARB: OpenMP Announces Specifications for Simplified Development of High Performance C AND C++ Applications
• Tera Computer Announces Support for OpenMP
• KAI Introduces First Implementation of New OpenMP C/C++ Industry Standard
• Non-Uniform Control Structures for C/C++ Explicit Parallelism,
  Poster Session at ISCOPE '98

September 1998

• Porting Scientific Software to Intel SMPs in
  SIAM News

August 1998

• LS-DYNA 940 Parallelism on the Compaq Family of Systems in
  Proceedings of the Fifth International LS-DYNA Users' Conference
• Sun Endorses OpenMP; Joins Architecture Board to Define Standard

April 1998

• OpenMP for Parallel Fortran Applications at
  Fortran Futures '98

March 1998

• OpenMP: An Industry-Standard API for Shared-Memory Programming in
  Computational Science & Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 1, January/March 1998
  

February 1998

• Silicon Graphics Announces Beta Program for OpenMP-Based Compilers

January 1998

• Porting Scientific Software to Intel SMPs Under Windows/NT (part 2) in
  Scientific Computing & Automation, Volume 15, Number 2, pages 29-32

November 1997

• Porting Scientific Software to Intel SMPs Under Windows/NT in
  Scientific Computing & Automation, Volume 14, Number 12, pages31-38
• EPC Announces Fortran 90 V2 to support OpenMP Tools and Roadmap for Merced Versions
• From EETimes: Multiprocessing spec's API eases program writing

October 1997

• KAI Introduces First Implementation of New OpenMP Industry Standard
• From Computerworld: Vendors support OpenMP scheme for cross-platform computing
• From the OpenMP ARB: Breakthrough OpenMP Industry Standard Brings Portability to Scalable, Shared-Memory Programming
• From The New York Times: A New Standard to Govern PCs with Multiple Chips

What People Are Saying

John A. Swanson,
ANSYS, Inc.

"The universal adoption of OpenMP will allow ANSYS to program to a standard, and will remove the requirement of developing and maintaining a separate parallel library for each different shared memory parallel platform.

"The standard constructs supported in OpenMP map well with the concepts used in ANSYS for several years, giving us a high level of comfort with the generality and applicability of the OpenMP standard. We urge its immediate adoption by all present and future systems which use a shared memory, multi-thread system model."

David A. Pensak,
Principal Consultant and Senior Research Fellow - Advanced Computing Technology,
E. I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc.

"We are very excited about OpenMP. This new standard should take us to the long sought Shangri-la of 'code once, run everywhere' in the world where efficiency and scalability can mean the difference between success and abject failure. We look forward to its widespread implementation by our key suppliers."

Dr. Christopher Willard,
Research Director for High-Performance Technologies,
IDC.

"IDC's research shows that ISVs providing applications to scientific and technical markets are working first to provide parallel applications for SMP architectures with four to eight processors. ISV efforts are significantly aided by programming tools or standards that allow them to easily move their codes between architectures.

"In addition, survey results of high-performance midrange systems users, show a higher priority ondeveloping applications for SMP than for distributed memory systems. Cross-industry programming tools and standards like OpenMP can both speed up initial programming efforts, and protect investments as applications are moved to new machines."