The OpenMP* API for shared memory parallelism has been around for two decades. Back in 1997, the first version of the OpenMP (Open Multi-Processing) specifications attempted to provide an easy way to ...

Ruud van der Pas from Oracle has co-authored a new book on OpenMP. Entitled “Using OpenMP – The Next Step,” the book was written together with Eric Stotzer and Christian Terboven. It covers the OpenMP ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenMP ® Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 11, the first preview of the future version 6.0 of the OpenMP API and version 5.2.1 of the ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenMP® Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Version 5.2 of the OpenMP API. With this release of the standard, the OpenMP API improves its quality and usability ...

I have been frequently asked when the OpenMP and OpenACC directive APIs for parallel programming will merge, or when will one of them (usually OpenMP) will replace the other. I doubt the two APIs will ...