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Parallel programming models are evolving so rapidly that it needs to be ensured that OpenMP can be used easily to program multicore devices. There is also effort involved in getting OpenMP to be accepted as a de facto standard in the embedded system community. However, in order to ensure correctness of OpenMP’s implementation, there is a requirement of an up-to-date validation suite. In this paper, we present a portable and robust validation testsuite execution environment to validate the OpenMP implementation in several compilers. We cover all the directives and clauses of OpenMP until the latest release, OpenMP Version 3.1. Our primary focus is to determine and evaluate the correctness of the OpenMP implementation in our research compiler, OpenUH and few others such as Intel, Sun/Oracle and GNU.
We also aim to find the ambiguities in the OpenMP specification and help refine the same with the validation suite. Furthermore, we also include deeper tests such as cross tests and orphan tests in the testsuite.
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Wang, C., Chandrasekaran, S., Chapman, B. (2012). An OpenMP 3.1 Validation Testsuite. In: Chapman, B.M., Massaioli, F., Müller, M.S., Rorro, M. (eds) OpenMP in a Heterogeneous World. IWOMP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30961-8_18
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