This fall will mark twenty years since the publication of the v1.0 specification of OpenMP Fortran. From early loop parallelism to a heterogeneous, exascale future, OpenMP has apparently weathered ...

Systems built from commodity hardware such as servers, desktops and laptops often contain so-called general-purpose processors (CPUs)—processors that specialize in doing many different things ...

OpenMP is the unsung backbone of parallel computing, powerful, portable, and surprisingly simple. Used everywhere from aerospace to AI, it lets developers tap into multicore and GPU performance with ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) is pleased to announce Version 6.0 of the OpenMP API Specification, a major upgrade of the OpenMP ...

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenMP® Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 13, the final public comment draft of version 6.0 of the OpenMP API. Version 6.0 of the ...

I’m James Reinders. A common question I get asked is “If I’m going to add parallelism to my program, how should I do it? What should I look for?” A seemingly simple question so let’s see if we can ...

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Michael Klemm, CEO, and Matthijs van Waveren, marketing coordinator for the OpenMP ARB, along with Jim Cownie, principal engineer, Intel ...

One of the things to avoid when it comes to parallelism is working with raw threads. Abstraction offers a way around the issue, by avoiding the need to deal with low-level details of parallel systems, ...