On Friday, April 15th, Spiros-Dimitiris Agathos completed successfully his PhD defence. Spiros architected the tasking subsystem of the OMPi compiler. His work also produced novel tasking techniques applicable to UMA and NUMA platforms, and general OpenMP support for embedded … [ read more ]
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OMPi 2.0.0 is out!
We are excited to announce the availability of v2.0.0 of our OMPi OpenMP compiler.
This release represents an important milestone. The source code has been reorganized substantially and brings support for major OpenMP 4.0 constructs. In particular, some of … [ read more ]
A. Papadogiannakis MSc thesis
On Friday, Feb. 19th, Alexandros Papadogiannakis defended successfully his MSc thesis. Alexandros redesigned major parts of the OMPi compiler adding a new, generalized outlining infrastructure. This infrastructure was then used to implement the new OpenMP 4.x device features, and additionally, … [ read more ]
Going to Aachen, Germany
We travel to Aachen, Germany in October! Our paper, entitled “OpenMP 4.0 Device Support in the OMPi Compiler“, will be presented in IWOMP 2015, the 11th International Workshop on OpenMP. We are going to talk about the … [ read more ]
See you in Vienna
The group will travel to Vienna in August! We’ll be presenting part of our current research in Euro-Par 2015, the prime European conference which covers all aspects of parallel and distributed processing.
The title of the paper is “… [ read more ]
New version (b2) of OMPi for Parallella
A new version of the OMPi OpenMP compiler for the Parallella board is available (version b2). The major new feature is the support for OpenMP within the Epiphany chip; offloaded kernels may now contain OpenMP directives.
Here are the … [ read more ]
OMPi now supports the parallella board
A special version of the OMPi OpenMP compiler that supports the Parallella board is now available, which treats the Epiphany chip as an OpenMP 4.0 device. What this means is that code can be offloaded to the Epiphany through … [ read more ]