Why Use OpenMP?
OpenMP Press Release, Oct. 28, 1997
"The universal implementation 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 developers that use a shared memory, multi-thread system model."
John Swanson, Founder of ANSYS, Inc.