OpenMP: It's Not That Scary

OpenMP is one of the easiest ways to parallelize software written in C/C++ and Fortran. It is widely supported, incredibly capable, and simple to use. It consists of a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that influence run-time behavior.

Alex Habeger has a long history with concurrency. One of his first computers was a dual Celeron. He maintained MPI code for the DOE where he began his unhealthy relationship with pthread_create, then went on to write entirely too much Ada in college which he is still recovering from. He then spent 5 years doing safety critical math and project management in the Army. He is currently Software Performance Engineer for Texas Multicore Technologies.

The talk will take place at Rackspace's Austin office, located on the East side of IH-35 right before Rundberg and after Henna Chevrolet (there is a sign for Rackspace which is visible from the highway). Feel free to park in the same lot as the big Rackspace flag.