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 ...

For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors by way of multiple threads. Results, although ...

The choice of programming tools and programming models is a deeply personal thing to a lot of the techies in the high performance computing space, much as it can be in other areas of the IT sector.

This year, OpenMP*, the widely used API for shared memory parallelism supported in many C/C++ and Fortran compilers, turns 20. OpenMP is a great example of how hardware and software vendors, ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Today’s world is mounting swiftly with varied communication mediums to share the information. Therefore, having information is not all that significant, but having it at faster rate ...

I have a question regarding nested OpenMP for-loops in applications where the outer-most for-loop is poorly load balanced. Suppose you have a double for-loop like so (it may not always be so explicit- ...

Targeting software developers, Cluster Toolkit 3.0 and Cluster OpenMP promise to ease the creation, debugging, and optimization of parallel applications for server clusters while facilitating the ...

When plotting scaling graphs for Intel processors which support multiple hardware threads/core, NEVERuse an X-axis labelled “Threads”, but always use “Cores”, and plot separate data for 1thread/core, ...