[Omp] Newsletter of the OpenMP ARB - October 2004

[Matthijs van Waveren]

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NEWSLETTER OF THE OPENMP ARB
Edition: October 2004

This is the monthly newsletter of the OpenMP Architecture Review
Board. It is based on the discussions in the OpenMP ARB conference
calls of the previous month, and on current activities in the
world of OpenMP. You can find general OpenMP-related links
at the tail of the newsletter.

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** There will be an OpenMP BOF at SC2004 in Pittsburgh

** EWOMP took place on October 18-21 in Stockholm.

** The merge of OpenMP Fortran, C, and C++ specifications is
progressing.


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* There will be an OpenMP BOF at SC2004

There will be an OpenMP BOF at SC2004 in Pittsburgh. This BOF will
take place on Wednesday, November 10 from 5:30 to 7:00 PM. It features
a short summary of the OpenMP ARB's efforts in the last year, followed
by a long panel discussion on the past, present, and future of OpenMP
and its alternatives. The panel features four recognized experts on
parallel programming and language design and promises to be
interesting and controversial. The panel members are Kathy Yellick
from Berkeley, Bill Gropp from Argonne, Rob Schreiber from HP, and
Sanjiv Shah from Intel. The web site is:
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/bofs.php

* EWOMP took place on October 18-21 in Stockholm.

The successful experience from last year's EWOMP was continued with a
talk session and a lab session. On the first two days, there were 16
talks on a variety of subjects on Performance Evaluation, Application
Studies, Implementation Issues, Tools, and Progamming Models. There
were two main lectures, one by Nawal Copty on OpenMP at Sun, and one
by Mark Bull on the Future of the OpenMP Specification. The final two
days were devoted to lab sessions, where participants could run their
codes and/or benchmarks on several vendor machines and compilers. The
participants appreciated the breadth of available vendor machines and
compilers.  The workshop web site is http://www.imit.kth.se/ewomp2004.

* The merge of OpenMP Fortran, C, and C++ specifications is progressing

A "final draft" is now being reviewed by the committee members. There
are still discussions on how much is flushed when a lock routine is
called, and on private variables in Fortran statement functions.
The ARB considers a public review period desirable after the final
internal review, as it promotes inclusiveness and openness.

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New SPEC OMP2001 and HPC2002 results are continually being published.
Both benchmark suites contain OpenMP code, and test OpenMP compilers.
You can view all SPEC OMP results at http://www.spec.org/omp/results.
You can view all SPEC HPC2002 results at http://www.spec.org/hpc2002/results.

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