Last week I attended the National Parallel Computing Conferences 2008 (JP08), thanks to my university, which payed to us (a group of pre-PhD researchers) the trip and estance. I talked about OpenMP and some problemas with Dynamic Data structures.

There were many other speeches both from my colleagues and from people of other universities.

The conferences were hosted at Universidat Jaume I located at Castellón de la Plana, Spain. There also is an official photo gallery. Besides that, I also took tome photos.

It was a nice experience and I met very friendly people. More photos here.

Posted by Boriel as Parallel Computing, Computer Science, Programming at 4.24 pm

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Actually, this isn’t recent news, since GCC supports OpenMP since version 4.2.0 (released on May, 2007). The interesting thing is that it’s being considered really stable and mature now; on the other hand, a new 4.3.0. branch is about to come. So we’ll soon see OpenMP support in our favourite Linux distro (it seems Fedora might already have included GCC 4.2.0 with OpenMP support already).

Previously, OpenMP support was done in GCC though the use of GOMP (an OpenMP library), but it has been finally merged into the developing mainline of this compiler collection (yes, Fortran have it too).

The specification implemented is OpenMP 2.5 (there’s a 3.0 draft on the way), and it seems to be completely supported, as you might read at the GCC Open MP features document.

Posted by Boriel as Parallel Computing, Compilers, Computer Science at 7.26 pm

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