학술논문
The Ongoing Evolution of OpenMP
Document Type
Periodical
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Source
Proceedings of the IEEE Proc. IEEE Proceedings of the IEEE. 106(11):2004-2019 Nov, 2018
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ISSN
0018-9219
1558-2256
1558-2256
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the past, present and future of the OpenMP application programming interface (API). While the API originally specified a small set of directives that guided shared memory fork-join parallelization of loops and program sections, OpenMP now provides a richer set of directives that capture a wide range of parallelization strategies that are not strictly limited to shared memory. As we look toward the future of OpenMP, we immediately see further evolution of the support for that range of parallelization strategies and the addition of direct support for debugging and performance analysis tools. Looking beyond the next major release of the specification of the OpenMP API, we expect the specification eventually to include support for more parallelization strategies and to embrace closer integration into its Fortran, C and, in particular, C++ base languages, which will likely require the API to adopt additional programming abstractions.