Oct, 2021
OpenMP API Speeds Up Autonomous Driving Codes
This blog describes how OpenMP has been used to parallelize object detection, motion planning, and visualization modules of the open source Autoware and Apollo software running on embedded systems.
Aug, 2021
OpenMP Examples – Updated with 5.1 Features
OPENMP RESOURCES UPDATE The OpenMP Examples document has been updated with new features found in the OpenMP 5.1 Specification The OpenMP ARB works not only to maintain and promote the OpenMP API, but also [...]
Jul, 2021
OpenMP ARB Releases Technical Report 10
The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 10, the preview for the future version 5.2 of the OpenMP API.
Apr, 2021
CSC Finland Joins the OpenMP Effort
"At CSC, we expect that with the pre-exascale EuroHPC LUMI supercomputer, OpenMP will play an important role in preparing our applications for the heterogeneous architecture and the exascale era." George Markomanolis, Lead HPC Scientist at CSC
Mentor Graphics and the University of Basel join the OpenMP effort
“We are delighted to welcome Mentor and the University of Basel as our newest members”, says Michael Klemm, CEO of the OpenMP ARB, “Both are very active in the open source and scientific community, and underline the relevance of the OpenMP API in the HPC community.”
Nov, 2020
OpenMP ARB releases OpenMP 5.1 with vital usability enhancements
While the primary focus has been enhancements, clarifications and corrections to the 5.0 specification, several useful new features have been added such as support for interoperability with lower level APIs like CUDA and HIP.
Aug, 2020
ECP OpenMP Hackathons 2020
ECP SOLLVE, in conjunction with ORNL and NERSC, organised two OpenMP Hackathons to help teams use OpenMP to port and optimize their applications on GPUs, and in using OpenMP for energy-efficient processor architectures.
Jul, 2020
OpenMP Examples – Updated with 5.0 Features
The OpenMP Examples document has been updated to include the new features found in the OpenMP 5.0 Specification. The latest source codes for the examples are also available on GitHub.
May, 2020
Mentor Graphics and the University of Basel join the OpenMP effort
“We are delighted to welcome Mentor and the University of Basel as our newest members”, says Michael Klemm, CEO of the OpenMP ARB, “Both are very active in the open source and scientific community, and underline the relevance of the OpenMP API in the HPC community.”
Apr, 2020
OpenMP API Helps Speed up Search for COVID-19 Drug
Speeding up drug discovery is urgently required and researchers around the world are using AutoDock 4.2 to identify novel drug candidates against COVID-19. This use case shows that the OpenMP API provides a useful and stable environment for node-level parallelization of AutoDock 4.2.