Introducing the OpenMP API

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	Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2: OpenMP API User's Guide

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Preface

1. Introducing the OpenMP API

1.1 Where to Find the OpenMP Specifications

1.2 Special Conventions Used Here

2. Compiling and Running OpenMP Programs

3. Implementation-Defined Behaviors

4. Nested Parallelism

5. Tasking

6. Automatic Scoping of Variables

7. Scope Checking

8. Performance Considerations

A. Placement of Clauses on Directives

B. Converting to OpenMP

Index

Chapter 1

The OpenMP Application Program Interface is a portable, parallel programming model for shared memory multimultithreaded architectures, developed in collaboration with a number of computer vendors. The specifications were created and are published by the OpenMP Architecture Review Board.

The OpenMP API is the recommended parallel programming model for all Solaris Studio compilers on Solaris platforms. See the Appendix for guidelines on converting legacy Fortran and C parallelization directives to OpenMP.