[Omp] Newsletter of the OpenMP ARB - November 2004

Tue Nov 30 07:37:05 PST 2004

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NEWSLETTER OF THE OPENMP ARB
Edition: November 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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** The Public Comment Period has begun for the OpenMP Specification 2.5

** WOMPEI 2005 will take place on Jan 20-21, 2005 in Tsukuba, Japan. The
deadline for submission of 2-page (extended) abstracts is December 5, 2004.

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* The Public Comment Period Begun for OpenMP Specification 2.5

The OpenMP ARB is pleased to announce the release of a draft of
Version 2.5 of the OpenMP specifications for public comment. The goal
of this version is to combine the Fortran and C/C++ specifications
into a single document and to resolve inconsistencies.

Sanjiv Shah, CEO of the OpenMP organization, praised the efforts
that produced the combined specification. "The OpenMP 2.5 Language
committee did an outstanding job. Every word was scrutinized to
produce a specification that is precise and self-consistent. This
work creates a solid foundation upon which to expand the execution
model and expressiveness in future OpenMP specifications."

The draft specification is available in PDF format from the
Specifications section of the OpenMP ARB website www.openmp.org

(Direct link: http://www.openmp.org/drupal/mp-documents/draft_spec25.pdf)

Mark Bull has led the effort to merge the specifications into a
single document as  the Chair of the OpenMP Language Committee.
He states that "Despite the committee's best efforts, there are a
small number of outstanding issues which have not been resolved at
the time of publication of the draft specification.  The committee
will continue to work on these, with the aim of clearing them up
before the end of the public comment period."

The ARB warmly welcomes any comments, corrections and suggestions you
have for Version 2.5. Please send email to feedback at openmp.org
It is most helpful if you can refer to the page number and line number
where appropriate.

The public comment period will close on 31 January 2005.

* WOMPEI 2005 will take place on Jan 20-21, 2005 in Tsukuba, Japan.

The web site for this OpenMP workshop is:
http://www.hpcs.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/wompei2005

In this WOMPEI, we solicit papers from the same topics as in previous
workshops. However, we would like to extend the topics with:

   - OpenMP on software distributed shared memory systems (SDSM)

   - OpenMP peformance on a large scale SMP systems

   - the use of OpenMP in embedded systems

   - and related topics on HFP and OpenMP.

The deadline for submission of 2-page (extended) abstracts is 5 December 
2004.

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