A good week in Bordeaux, France focused on closing different open topics in the
specification and many of those who have been discussed during past weeks have
been shaping up and they are in good condition to go through the committee’s
votes.
An advanced tutorial using the tasking model of the OpenMP standard. This
course includes recent addition of OpenMP 4.5, being all the lecturers part of
the OpenMP language committee.
Last Face to Face meeting before the end of the project and we have report the
work progress for the different work packages and several technical sessions in
a one-and-a-half-day meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
The tutorial will motivate the audience on the need for portable, efficient
programming models that put less pressure on program developers while still
getting good performance for clusters and clusters with GPUs.
We have done a very good progress towards the future of the OpenMP 5.0
specification. We have discussed many issues and voted several tickets that
finally have already been included in the specification (or will do in the
short term).