OpenMP: A Proposed Industry Standard API for Shared Memory Programming

October 1997

• Introduction
• Why a New Standard?
• What is OpenMP?
  • A Simple Example
  • Scalability
• A More Complicated Example
• OpenMP Design Objective
  • Control Structures
  • Data Environment
  • Synchronization
  • Runtime Library and Environment Variables
• What does this mean to me?
• What happens next?
• References
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