Some new developments regarding OpenMP:
- LLVM Clang is growing towards full OpenMP 4.5 support.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Clang-OpenMP-4x-Better
- GCC 6.1 has been released with full support for OpenMP 4.5
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2016/msg00000.html
- The Parallella Board is now running OpenMP. It has dual-core ARM A9 processors and as co-processor Adapteva Epiphany
https://www.parallella.org/board
- InsideHPC published an article on OpenMP and OpenCL on Intel Xeon Phi
http://insidehpc.com/2016/02/openmp-and-opencl/
- An excellent route to invoking C++/OpenMP from R is by using the Rcpp package
https://www.r-bloggers.com/2015/01/openmp-tutorial-with-r-interface/