An Overview of OpenMP 

                        Ruud van der Pas
                     Senior Staff Engineer
                      Oracle Solaris Studio
                             Oracle
                      Menlo Park, CA, USA

OpenMP is a widely accepted and used shared memory parallel programming model (http://www.openmp.org). Over time it has evolved and adapted to both hardware trends and the needs of software developers. This makes it very suitable to develop parallel applications for multicore based systems, ranging from a small laptop to a very large server.

The tutorial presents a practical overview of OpenMP. Other than some programming experience in C, C++ or Fortran, no background in parallel computing is assumed. Most OpenMP constructs will be introduced and explained by means of an example.

Agenda

13:30 - 14:30 Basic Concepts in Parallelization
       
              This talk covers the most important basic concepts in parallel 
              computing. Topics covered are threads, parallelization, speed up,
              efficiency, Amdahl's Law and parallel overheads.

14:30 - 15:30 Getting Started with OpenMP
  
              In this talk we demonstrate how OpenMP can be used to parallelize
              the most common and straightforward types of computations. Several
              live demos will be given.

15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 Using OpenMP 

              Now that the basics of OpenMP have been covered, it is time to look
              at certain constructs in more detail, as well as introduce some 
              powerful, but more specialized features OpenMP offers.

17:00 - 18:00 OpenMP and Performance

              The goal of parallelization is to improve performance. Unfortunately,
              there are many misconceptions regarding OpenMP and performance. In
              this talk these will be addressed, as well as tips and tricks how to
              obtain good performance using OpenMP.