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OpenMP 4.0 almost ready after recent F2F meeting

Posted on June 13, 2013

Last week’s OpenMP Language Committee face-to-face (F2F) meeting was meant to resolve the final outstanding issues to get the OpenMP 4.0 specification ready. With this week’s concall I assume we achieved just that and now it is our editor’s turn … Continue reading →

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Advanced OpenMP Tutorial @ ISC in June in Leipzig

Posted on June 11, 2013

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) will take place in Leipzig, Germany, next week from June 16th to June 20th, 2013. This year the program contains tutorials again and the team of Bronis de Supinski (LLNL), Michael Klemm (Intel) and myself … Continue reading →

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OpenMP 4.0 RC2 has been released

Posted on March 14, 2013

In addition to the new features already present in release candidate one (RC1), the second draft of the next OpenMP specification release contains the following additions (quoted from openmp.org): Initial accelerators support: Device Data Environments (p16), target constructs (p68: target, target data, target … Continue reading →

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OpenMP 4.0 RC2 is well on it’s way

Posted on February 27, 2013

Long time no blog post. But I have good news to share today: Yesterday the OpenMP Language Committee (LC) hold the final votes on a set of tickets (read: extensions or corrections) to find their way into OpenMP 4.0 RC2, … Continue reading →

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OpenMP 4.0 RC1 and the Accelerator TR available

Posted on November 14, 2012

Quoting from openmp.org: OpenMP, the de-facto standard for parallel programming on shared memory systems, continues to extend its reach beyond pure HPC to include embedded systems, real time systems, and accelerators. Release Candidate 1 of the OpenMP 4.0 API specifications … Continue reading →

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Expect big OpenMP 4.0 news for SC12

Posted on November 6, 2012

Expect big news on OpenMP 4.0 for next week’s SC12. The OpenMP Language Committee – responsible for developing the standard – always planned to release the next version of the standard as a draft for public comment in time for … Continue reading →

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A Glimpse at OpenMP for Accelerators (aka OpenACC v2?)

Posted on October 12, 2012

During our OpenACC Workshop I contributed a brief talk on the current status of the OpenMP for Accelerators proposal. It caused some interest, because if successful, this proposal will be the de-facto successor of OpenACC, fully integrated into the rest … Continue reading →

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Event Annoucement: Microsoft Azure Compute Tutorial

Posted on October 2, 2012

This time I am going to announce an event to which we never had a similar predecessor: On November 5th, 2012, we will conduct a Microsoft Azure Compute Tutorial with speakers from the European Microsoft Innovation Center in Aachen. What … Continue reading →

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Revamped Web Presence

Posted on September 21, 2012

I am not a designer. Neither am I an artist. But I appreciate well-designed, simplistic websites. Hence I decided to completely migrate to wordpress.com, this is where you ended up now. The domain I own, terboven.com, will soon point here, … Continue reading →

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Several Event Annoucements

Posted on September 11, 2012

These are just some announcements of upcoming events in which I am involved in a varying degree. The first two will be take place at RWTH Aachen University and attendance is free of charge, the second is part of the … Continue reading →

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