The 7th annual International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP) was dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel programming with the OpenMP API. It is the premier forum to present and discuss issues, trends, recent research ideas and results related to OpenMP parallel programming. The international workshop affords [...]
Seminar/Workshop: March 21 - March 25, 2011 Aachen, Germany http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/ppces This event is now over, but the course material is available on the Seminar website. This year's seminar will include a special introduction session on Monday to present the new HPC-cluster to be delivered by Bull. During the remainder of the week, [...]
This year's international supercomputing conference and exhibition, SC10, was in New Orleans, LA, November 13-19, and OpenMP.org was there participating in the following events: A Hands-On Introduction to OpenMP A Hands-On Introduction to OpenMP Tim Mattson, Michael Wrinn, Mark Bull Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP Hybrid MPI and OpenMP Parallel [...]
IWOMP 2010, the annual international workshop on OpenMP, was held in Tsukuba, Japan in June. The papers presented at the workshop are now available as a book published by Springer Verlag: Beyond Loop Level Parallelism in OpenMP: Accelerators, Tasking and More
Dr Dobbs Journal has a lengthy article about OpenMP: OpenMP: A Portable Solution for Threading By Shameem Akhter and Jason Roberts However, while still useful, it is a bit dated. It seems to be adapted from Chapter 6 of the authors' book Multi-Core Programming, and is limited to version 2.5 [...]
SPEC, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, is looking for realistic OpenMP applications to include in the next version of the SPEC CPU and SPEC OMP benchmark suites. SPEC is sponsoring a search program, and for each step of the process that a submission passes, SPEC will compensate the Program Submitter [...]
From The 2009 International Workshop on OpenMP in Dresden, Germany. Many of the presentations are now available in PDF from the IWOMP website: An Overview of OpenMP 3.0 Ruud van der Pas, Sun Microsystems OpenMP Under The Hood Lei Huang, University of Houston Tasking in OpenMP 3.0 Alejandro Duran, Barcelona [...]
Ruud van der Pas, one of the authors of the book Using OpenMP - - Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming by Chapman, Jost, and van der Pas, has made 41 of the examples in the book available for download and your use. These source examples are available as a free [...]
A summary card of the OpenMP 3.0 Fortran API Specifications is now available: »OpenMP 3.0 Fortran API Summary Card (revised March 2009) (PDF) Also: »Version 3.0 Summary Card C/C++ (November, 2008) (PDF)
Ruud van der Pas (Sun Microsystems) debunks some of the myths about OpenMP he found in a recent article on the web about parallel programming. Unfortunately, the September 5, 2008 blog titled "The OpenMP Concurrency Platform" written by Charles Leiserson from Cilk Arts repeats some of the persistent myths regarding OpenMP. Certain [...]