Rudi Eigenmann & Bronis R. de Supinski 
OpenMP in a New Era of Parallelism [PDF ebook] 
4th International Workshop, IWOMP 2008 West Lafayette, IN, USA, May 12-14, 2008, Proceedings

Open MP is a widely accepted, standard application programming interface (API) for high-level shared-memory parallel programming in Fortran, C, and C++. Since its introduction in 1997, Open MP has gained support from most high-performance compiler and hardware vendors. Under the direction of the Open MP Architecture Review Board (ARB), the Open MP speci?cation has evolved, including the – cent release of Speci?cation 3. 0. Active research in Open MP compilers, runtime systems, tools, and environments drives its evolution, including new features such as tasking. The community of Open MP researchers and developers in academia and – dustry is united under c OMPunity (www. compunity. org). This organaization has held workshops on Open MP around the world since 1999: the European Wo- shop on Open MP (EWOMP), the North American Workshop on Open MP App- cations and Tools (WOMPAT), and the Asian Workshop on Open MP Experiences and Implementation (WOMPEI) attracted annual audiences from academia and industry. The International Workshop on Open MP (IWOMP) consolidated these three workshop series into a single annual international event that rotates across the previous workshop sites. The ?rst IWOMP meeting was held in 2005, in – gene, Oregon, USA. IWOMP 2006 took place in Reims, France, and IWOMP 2007 in Beijing, China. Each workshop drew over 60 participants from research and – dustry throughout the world. IWOMP 2008 continued the series with technical papers, panels, tutorials, and Open MP status reports. The ?rst IWOMP wo- shop was organized under the auspices of c OMPunity.