OpenMP as a High-Level Specification Language for Parallelism - And its use in Evaluating Parallel Programming Systems

While OpenMP is the de facto standard of shared memory parallel programming models, a number of alternative programming models and runtime systems have arisen in recent years. Fairly evaluating these programming systems can be challenging and can require significant manual effort on the part of researchers. However, it is important to facilitate these comparisons as a way of advancing both the available OpenMP runtimes and the research being done with these novel programming systems.