Tag Archives: OpenMP

OpenMP 4.0 RC2 has been released

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

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

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

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?)

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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Several Event Annoucements

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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The Design of OpenMP Thread Affinity

Exascale machines will employ significantly more threads than today, but even on current architectures controlling thread affinity is crucial to fuel all the cores and to maintain data affinity, but both MPI and OpenMP lack a solution to this problem … Continue reading

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OpenMP and OpenACC

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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Upcoming Events in March 2011

Let me point you to some HPC events in March 2011. 3rd Parallel Programming in Computational Engineering and Science (PPCES) Workshop. This event will continue the tradition of previous annual week-long events taking place in Aachen every spring since 2001, … Continue reading

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RWTH Aachen gets a new 300 Teraflops HPC system from Bull

While I usually do not repeat press releases in my blog, this one I do since we all are a little proud of the achievement: RWTH Aachen University orders Bull supercomputer to support its scientific, industrial and environmental research. Getting … Continue reading

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