OpenMP: Enabling HPC for Twenty Years
SessionCommunications and Software
Presenter
Event Type
Exhibitor Forum
TimeTuesday, November 14th2pm -
2:30pm
Location503-504
DescriptionOpenMP® is twenty this year. Since its inauguration in
1997, it has become the standard programming model for
multi-threading in HPC applications and drove many
scientific discoveries by helping domain scientists
implement multi-threading in their simulation codes. The
OpenMP API is based on directives to augment code
written in C/C++ and Fortran with parallelization hints
to the compiler.
In its 20 years of existence, OpenMP has evolved from a purely multi-threaded model to a programming model that supports modern task-based programming as well heterogeneous programming for offload devices such as GPUs. With its extensions it also supports data-parallel programming for single-instruction multiple-data architectures.
This presentation reviews the history of OpenMP, the current features and provides an outlook for the upcoming OpenMP API specification, OpenMP Technical Report 6: Version 5.0 Preview 2, which will be released during SC’17. The final version of OpenMP version 5.0 is planned for SC18.
In its 20 years of existence, OpenMP has evolved from a purely multi-threaded model to a programming model that supports modern task-based programming as well heterogeneous programming for offload devices such as GPUs. With its extensions it also supports data-parallel programming for single-instruction multiple-data architectures.
This presentation reviews the history of OpenMP, the current features and provides an outlook for the upcoming OpenMP API specification, OpenMP Technical Report 6: Version 5.0 Preview 2, which will be released during SC’17. The final version of OpenMP version 5.0 is planned for SC18.
