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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.