[Omp] Newsletter of the OpenMP ARB - Spring 2006

[G.M. van Waveren]

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NEWSLETTER OF THE OPENMP ARB

Edition: Spring 2006

 

This is the quarterly newsletter of the OpenMP Architecture Review

Board. It is based on the discussions in the OpenMP ARB conference

calls of the previous quarter, 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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** IWOMP 2006 will be held in Reims, France.

   Registration and hotel booking is now open.

 

** OpenMP 3.0 development is on-going

 

** An OpenMP validation suite is available for download

 

** Dr Biswas of NASA Ames has been elected to the Board

   of Directors of the OpenMP ARB

 

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* IWOMP 2006 will be held in Reims, France.

 

IWOMP 2006 (the International Workshop on OpenMP) will be held in Reims,

FRANCE. The workshop will be a great opportunity for learning more

about OpenMP, for practical experience and interaction between OpenMP

users and developers. In keeping with the objectives and format of the

previous workshops, IWOMP 2006 will feature two distinct parts. The

first part, which will take place in the Pommery Castle, will consist

of presentations of technical papers and panels. The second part,

which will take place at Reims University, will provide attendees the

opportunity to learn OpenMP through a tutorial that will include

several real-life case studies or to improve the performance of their

applications through a hands-on laboratory experience.

 

Hotel booking is now open. The deadline for using the IWOMP block of

rooms is April 28, 2006. You can find more information at

http://www.iwomp.org.

 

The registration is now open, and deadline for early registration is

May 15, 2006. 

 

* OpenMP 3.0 development is on-going

 

There are two active subgroups; one on task queues and one on hardware

abstractions. The task queue subgroups is focusing on semantics, and

is working on combining the 3 proposals. The hardware abstraction

subgroup is focusing on the mapping of threads to hardware

resources. One of the items under discussion is the subdivision of

threads to get better locality. Multicore and hyperthreading issues

will be addressed.

 

* An OpenMP validation suite is available for download

 

The OpenMP validation suite is a collection of C and Fortran programs

with OpenMP directives that were designed to validate the correctness

of an OpenMP implementation. It is a joint effort of the High

Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and the University of Houston.

The suite is designed to cover the 2.5 version of the OpenMP

standard. This version not only merges the Fortran and C/C++ language

binding from the former version 2.0, but it also contains a number of

clarifications or more detailed specifications. Currently the suite

consists of more than 50 different tests, each testing different

constructs. You can find more information and download the suite at:

 

http://www.hlrs.de/organization/amt/projects/openmpvalidation/

 

* Dr Biswas of NASA Ames has been elected to the Board of Directors

of the OpenMP ARB

 

Dr. Biswas is currently acting chief of the NASA Advanced

Supercomputing (NAS) Division, which has hosted one of the world

fastest supercomputers, Columbia. He has been elected to the Board of

Directors of the OpenMP ARB. The members of the Board are now:

Josh Simons (Sun), Sanjiv Shah (Intel), Kohichiro Hotta (Fujitsu),

Charles Grassl (IBM), and Rupak Biswas (NASA Ames).

 

Dr. Biswas is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of parallel

programming models and paradigms; benchmarking and performance

characterization of emerging and innovative architectures for high-end

computing (HEC) systems; novel partitioning and load balancing

techniques for large-scale computational science problems; and

scheduling algorithms for distributed computing environments. He lead

a group of NASA scientists and collaborators from other institutes to

conduct benchmarking and performance characterization of several HEC

systems using various parallel programming models and paradigms.  His

earlier work on OpenMP has been illustrated by the paper on

"Parallelization of a Dynamic Unstructured Application Using Three

Leading Paradigms," which was awarded the best paper of SC99.

 

 

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The web site of the OpenMP ARB is http://www.openmp.org. Current

members are ASC at LLNL, cOMPunity, EPCC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel,

NASA, NEC, RWTH Aachen, STMicroelectronics, SGI, and SUN. You can find

copies of previous newsletters at: http://www.openmp.org/newsletters. 

You can find details on OpenMP-related resources (tools, books,

compilers, general software) at http://www.openmp.org/index.cgi?resources.

 

The web site of the OpenMP User's Group cOMPunity is

http://www.compunity.org, where you can become member online.

 

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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