OpenMP Timeline
The latest issue of Intel's Parallel Universe magazine has a wonderful graphic that depicts the history of the OpenMP specifications (on page 41):
Latest News Items
Here are a few news items relating to OpenMP: Multicore Software Development Kit for HPC available now for Keystone II devices, incl. OpenMP, OpenCL & MPI http://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/c6000_multi-core_dsps/f/639/t/340420.aspx Article on The New World of Embedded Multicore Processing with Open Programming Models http://eecatalog.com/multicore/2014/05/07/the-new-world-of-embedded-multicore-processing-with-open-programming-models/ Article on programming heterogeneous multicore embedded SoCs http://www.embedded.com/design/mcus-processors-and-socs/4430037/Programming-heterogeneous-multicore-embedded-SoCs Article [...]
IWOMP 2014 – CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Workshop on OpenMP IWOMP 2014 Using and Improving OpenMP for Devices, Tasks and More September 28-30, 2014 SENAI CIMATEC - Salvador, Bahia, Brazil http://www.iwomp.org/ The International Workshop on OpenMP is the premier forum to present and discuss issues, trends, recent research ideas and results related [...]
PPCES 2014 : HPC Seminar and Workshop : March 10-14
Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science Monday, March 10 - Friday, March 14, 2014vin Aachen, Germany This event will continue the tradition of previous annual week-long events that take place in Aachen every spring since 2001. Throughout the week we will cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from [...]
OpenMP ARB Issues New Mission Statement
In recent years, OpenMP has shifted from being solely focused on shared- memory systems to also include accelerators, embedded systems, multicore and real-time systems. Today the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) releases a new Mission Statement to formalize this change. A technical report on directives for attached accelerators was first [...]
Dieter an Mey Appointed to OpenMP Board of Directors
February 13, 2014 - Champaign, Illinois - The OpenMP ARB, a group of leading hardware and software vendors and research organizations developing the OpenMP API specification for shared-memory parallelization, appointed Dieter an Mey to its Board of Directors. Dieter brings a wealth of experience as an OpenMP user to the [...]
Updated OpenMP 4.0 Examples
An update to the OpenMP 4.0 Examples document is now available. It adds new examples that demonstrate use of the proc_bind clause to control thread binding for a team of threads in a parallel region. Also, new examples for the taskgroup construct. »OpenMP 4.0.1 Examples (PDF)
Spring Lang Committee Meeting Scheduled
As the Winter face-to-face meeting of the OpenMP Language Committee winds down at Intel in Santa Clara, CA, we can announce the date and location of the next meeting in the Spring: Spring F2F Meeting At: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK Dates: April 12-16 (Sat-Wed) Hosts: Michael Wong and James [...]
Hybrid MPI+OpenMP Tutorial Available
Slides and audio from the day-long tutorial on MPI and OpenMP programming presented at Supercomputing 13 in Denver in November 2013 is now available. »Hybrid MPI and OpenMP Parallel Programming MPI + OpenMP and other models on clusters of SMP nodes - Rolf Rabenseifner, Georg Hager, Gabriele Jost
Lang Committee Meeting January 27-31 in Santa Clara
The OpenMP Lang Committee will be holding its first face-to-face meeting of 2014 on the Intel campus in Santa Clara, CA January 27-31. This meeting will include breakout sessions and presentations by the various subcommittees (Accelerator, Error Model, Interoperability, Fortran, Tasking, Examples) as work continues to develop the next version [...]