The March 2009 edition of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems features an article on the design of tasks in OpenMP by Eduard Ayguadé, Nawal Copty, Alejandro Duran, Jay Hoeflinger, Yuan Lin, Federico Massaioli, Xavier Teruel, Priya Unnikrishnan, Guansong Zhang. OpenMP has been very successful in exploiting structured [...]
Ruud van der Pas of Sun Microsystems recently gave an overview of OpenMP at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The slides are now available: »An Overview of OpenMP - Ruud van der Pas - Sun Microsystems Here is the video of the talk:
Tim Mattson and Larry Meadows, both of Intel, presented a day-long tutorial introducing parallel programming with OpenMP at SC08 last week in Austin, TX. The slides and class exercises from that tutorial are now available: Hands-On Introduction to OpenMP, Mattson and Meadows, from SC08 (Austin) (PDF) Code Exercises (zip)
»Christian Terboven reports: SC08 brought us some pretty good news regarding availability of (full) support for OpenMP 3.0: Intel 11.0: Linux (x86), Windows (x86) and MacOS (x86) Sun Studio Express 11/08: Linux (x86) and Solaris (SPARC + x86) PGI 8.0: Linux (x86) and Windows (x86) IBM 10.1: Linux (POWER) and [...]
Michael Wong of IBM Canada attended the OpenMP "Birds-of-a-Feather" meeting at SC08 in Austin, TX this week, and is blogging about it on his »C/C++ Cafe blog.
An 8 page summary card of the OpenMP 3.0 specifications is now available: »Version 3.0 Summary Card (November, 2008) (PDF)
OpenMP - Eine Einführung in die parallele Programmierung mit C/C++ (OpenMP - An Introduction into Parallel Programming with C/C++ ) von Rainer Lienhart und Simon Hofmann, (Universität Augsburg) Has been published by »Springer (in German). Here is the description: Über dieses Lehrbuch OpenMP ist ein weit verbreiteter de-facto-Standard für High-Level [...]
Full support for the OpenMP 3.0 parallel programming standard for multi-core x64 CPUs and multi-socket servers, including full support for TASKs in PGF95 and PGCC in release 8.0. More information is at the »PGI website.
Sun Microsystems has announced the Sun Studio Express November 2008 release with complete implementation of the OpenMP 3.0 specifications. Some OpenMP 3.0 features were first introduced in the Sun Studio Express July 2008 release. The implementation of OpenMP 3.0 is completed with the »Sun Studio Express November 2008 Release. The [...]
Our thanks go to the volunteers from Fujitsu who have completed a translation of the OpenMP 3.0 API Specifications into Japanese, and to Dr. Satoh at the University of Tsukuba and volunteers at NEC who reviewed the final document for accuracy. OpenMP 3.0 in Japanese (November 2008)(PDF)