Evaluating the Impact of OpenMP 4.0 Extensions on Relevant Parallel Workloads
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OpenMP has been for many years the most widely used programming model for shared memory architectures. Periodically, new features are proposed and some of them are finally selected for inclusion in the OpenMP standard. The OmpSs programming model developed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) aims to be an OpenMP forerunner that handles the main OpenMP constructs plus some extra features not included in the OpenMP standard. In this paper we show the usefulness of three OmpSs features not currently handled by OpenMP 4.0 by deploying them over three applications of the PARSEC benchmark suite and showing the performance benefits. This paper also shows performance trade-offs between the OmpSs/OpenMP tasking and loop parallelism constructs and shows how a hybrid implementation that combines both approaches is sometimes the best option.
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