Dec, 2019
The OpenMP Booth Talks from SC19 are now available
Dec 1, 2019 - The OpenMP booth talks from SC19 are now available to view. A wide range of experts shared their technical knowledge and insights into the latest OpenMP technologies and applications.
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The University of Tennessee joins the OpenMP effort
Nov 15, 2019 - “The University of Tennessee has been involved in the development of many standards over the past thirty years”, says Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee. “We are proud to continue that effort in helping to define community standards by joining the OpenMP ARB.”
Nov, 2019
OpenMP ARB Releases Technical Report 8
Nov 12, 2019 - The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 8, the first preview for the future OpenMP API, version 5.1. Commenting on the announcment the OpenMP Language Committee Chair Bronis R. de Supinski said, "We are excited about this first public step towards OpenMP 5.1. While 5.1 will include only a small set of new features, TR8 demonstrates that those additions, such as the 'assume' directive, will provide important usability enhancements." more
Oct, 2019
OpenMP Hackathon at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Blog Report: The OpenMP hackathon held at Brookhaven National Laboratory involved eight application teams from US national labs and universities working to fully leverage pre-Exascale systems using the latest OpenMP features. The event was sponsored by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), the OpenMP ARB, cOMPunity and the SOLLVE team. more
Jun, 2019
ECP OpenMP Hackathons
ECP SOLLVE, in conjunction with ORNL and NERSC, are organizing two OpenMP Hackathons in July and August. We encourage participation of teams interested in using OpenMP to port and optimize their applications on GPUs, and in using OpenMP for energy-efficient processor architectures. more
May, 2019
OpenMP @ ISC 2019
Join us at ISC 2019 in Frankfurt (June 16-20) for the BOF 'OpenMP 5.0 is Here: What do I Need to Know About it and What's Coming Next?, plus two tutorials: 'OpenMP Common Core: Learning Parallelization of Real Applications from the Ground-Up' and 'Advanced OpenMP: Performance and 5.0 Features'. more
Apr, 2019
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre joins the OpenMP effort
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany (LRZ) has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations creating the standard for the most popular shared-memory parallel programming model in use today.
Feb, 2019
OpenMP 5.0 Spec Now Available on Amazon
The OpenMP 5.0 Specification is now available as a softcover book on Amazon. 
Nov, 2018
MHPCC and the U of Manchester Join the OpenMP Effort
The Maui High-Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) and the University of Manchester have joined the OpenMP ARB. This brings the number of vendors and research organizations now collaborating on developing the standard parallel programming model to 33.
OPENMP 5.0 IS A MAJOR LEAP FORWARD
SC18, Dallas, Texas – November 8, 2018 – The OpenMP® Architecture Review Board (ARB) is pleased to announce Version 5.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP language. The OpenMP community has made many requests since version 4.5 was introduced in 2015. As a result OpenMP 5.0 adds many new features that will be useful for highly parallel and complex applications. OpenMP now covers the entire hardware spectrum from embedded and accelerator devices to multicore systems with shared-memory. Vendors have made reference implementations of parts of the standard, and user courses will soon be given at OpenMP workshops and major conferences. More...