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News...

OpenMP 3.0 specifications released!

The final 3.0 specs is available.  The major achievement is the new tasking concept, which considerably increases OpenMP's applicability for a large class of applications. Furthermore it improves the support of nested parallelization and includes quite a few clarifications and corrections.

The OpenMP ARB's Website has been considerably overhauled

Please find plenty of up-to-date information around OpenMP there.

Upcoming

PacT 2009 August 1 - September 4 2009, Novosivirsk, Russia

The aim of the PaCT-2009 is to give an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel computing technologies. We sincerely hope that the conference will help our community to deepen understanding of parallel computing technologies by providing a forum for an exchange of views between scientists and specialists from over the world.
We welcome your active participation. The official language of the Conference is English.

•   Main topics
  • All aspects of the applications of parallel computer systems
  • Methods and tools for parallel solution of large-scale problems
  • Languages, environment and software tools supporting parallel processing
  • Operating systems, scheduling, mapping, load balancing
  • General architecture concepts
  • Cellular automata and cellular neural networks
  • Performance measurement and analysis
  • Teaching parallel processing
  • Software for GRID computing
  • Software Transactional Memory
    

Past...

International Workshop on OpenMP IWOMP 2009

3rd to 5th of June in Dresden
The 5th International Workshop on OpenMP: Evolving OpenMP in an Age of Extreme Parallelism - took place in Dresden (Germany) from the 3rd June through the 5th June 2009. The workshop will be hosted by the Center for Information Services & High Performance Computing (ZIH) at the Dresden University of Technology.

About...

cOMPunity is the community of OpenMP researchers and developers in academia and industry. It is a forum for the dissemination and exchange of information about OpenMP. cOMPunity is also a forum for discussing our experiences with this programming API and for debating ideas that might improve it. cOMPunity was formally incorporated as a non-profit organization on November 14, 2001

OpenMP was developed by a consortium of computer vendors to enable the creation of portable, high-level shared memory parallel programs under Fortran, C and C++.

The cOMPunity website will provide up-to-date information on OpenMP-related news and events. It is a repository of resources for learning about OpenMP, reading about the experiences of application developers who use the language, and for finding out about recent research activities. It will also be the site for obtaining OpenMP freeware and benchmarks.

We welcome contributions on all of the above.
For comments, suggestions and contributions concerning the web site feel free to contact the webmaster.

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The current specification

OpenMP API Version 3.0 (pdf)