Category Archives: Future of HPC

OpenMP 4.0 RC2 has been released

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

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 by

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 by

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 by

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 by

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 by

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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Several Event Annoucements

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

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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On the future of HPC on Windows

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

Just a few weeks ago during SC11 Microsoft released two new or updated HPC products, namely Windows Azure HPC Scheduler and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP3. However, what I saw and heard during the last few months as well … Continue reading →

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OpenMP and OpenACC

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

If you attended SC11, you might have noticed some buzz around OpenACC. Well, at least I did. For example, today’s OpenMP BOF had some information on this. I want to use this blog post to add some general comments and … Continue reading →

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Dan Reed on Technical (Cloud) Computing with Microsoft: Vision

Posted on July 4, 2011 by

During ISC 2011 in Hamburg I got the opportunity to talk to Microsoft’s Dan Reed, Corporate Vice President, Technology Policy and Extreme Computing Group. It was a very nice discussion soon targeting towards HPC in the Cloud, touching the topics … Continue reading →

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