OpenMP: an industry standard API for shared-memory programming

Dagum, Leonardo; Menon, Ramesh

doi:10.1109/99.660313

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OpenMP: an industry standard API for shared-memory programming

Published in IEEE Computational Science and Engineering • Jan 1, 1998

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Leonardo Dagum

Ramesh Menon

Abstract

At its most elemental level, OpenMP is a set of compiler directives and callable runtime library routines that extend Fortran (and separately, C and C++ to express shared memory parallelism. It leaves the base language unspecified, and vendors can implement OpenMP in any Fortran compiler. Naturally,...

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