[LLVMdev] OpenMP 3.1 Support Implementation In Clang Is Available

[Renato Golin]

Great news! Congratulations Andrey & team!

Looking forward to seeing the code upstream.

cheers,
--renato


On 27 August 2013 13:20, Andrey Bokhanko <andreybokhanko at gmail.com> wrote:

> [This is a cross-posting of a message posted in cfe-dev mailing list (
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2013-August/031595.html);
> sorry for double-posting.]
>
> All,
>
> This is to announce availability of a full OpenMP 3.1 support
> implementation in Clang compiler.
>
> The project is hosted there: http://clang-omp.github.com/
>
> It is based on clang 3.3 (and will be updated as new clang/llvm releases
> become available); also, we plan to eventually contribute everything to the
> clang trunk (initial patches have already been committed).
>
> This implementation supports 3.1 version of OpenMP standard in full; it
> passes all OpenMP tests we tried with it so far (this includes OpenMP
> Validation Suite from OpenUH Research Compiler, SPEC OMP2012 and internal
> Intel test suites). Performance-wise, it demonstrates similar gains and
> scalability as other compilers with OpenMP support. (Sorry, I can’t be more
> specific here, as properly reporting performance results is a precise and
> laborious process. You are welcome to try clang compiler with OpenMP
> support on your own OpenMP programs, awe performance gains and share
> excitement with the community. :-))
>
> The project was started by Mahesha HS (then at AMD), who created initial
> patch. After that, it was carried out by several Intel engineers; Alexey
> Bataev did most of the coding. Hal Finkel, Dmitry Gribenko and Doug Gregor
> contributed a lot with code reviews.
>
> OpenMP in an evolving standard; thus, there is always something still left
> to be done, and your contributions (of any kind -- patches, code reviews,
> testing, bug reports) are very much welcome!
>
> Yours,
> Andrey Bokhanko
> ==============
> Software Engineer
> Intel
>
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