OpenMP contest to be held at SC05

released October 27, 2005

The OpenMP Architecture Review Board will hold an OpenMP programming contest at SC05 (in Seattle, Nov. 12-18) to raise awareness of OpenMP and encourage its use for scalable high-performance computing. OpenMP is a specification for a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that can be used to specify shared memory parallelism in Fortran and C/C++ programs.

Competitors need to implement the benchmark, following the rules provided in the written specification, in OpenMP. All entries should be submitted electronically to omp-arb@openmp.org.

Judges will evaluate performance and scalability (50 percent) and usage of OpenMP (50 percent). Performance will be measured on the average of the normalized timings for all four timed kernels. Scalability will be measured on the speedup over a single processor run. All entries must be submitted by noon (Pacific) on Nov. 5.

The first place winner will receive $1,000 and a 60GB iPod; second place $500 and a 4GB iPod nano; and the third place finisher will receive $250 and a 1GB iPod shuffle.

 

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