The OpenMP ARB Appoints Barbara Chapman of Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Lab to Its Board of Directors

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#OpenMP–The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of vendors and
research organizations creating the standard for one of the most popular
shared-memory and embedded parallel programming models in use today, is
pleased to announce the appointment of Barbara Chapman to its Board of
Directors.

Barbara Chapman is a professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics,
and of Computer Science, at Stony
Brook University. She is also director of Computer
Science and Mathematics at Brookhaven
National Lab, where she leads an effort to evolve OpenMP and its
implementation for large-scale scientific applications. Barbara aims to
improve outreach and training activities to facilitate the adoption of
OpenMP.

“We are delighted to have Prof. Chapman join the OpenMP
Board,” says Partha Tirumalai, chairman of the OpenMP Board of
Directors. “Her decades of experience in high-performance computing and
education will enhance the value OpenMP brings to users all over the
world.”

“Barbara Chapman is the founder of cOMPunity,
the Community of OpenMP Users, Researchers, Tool Developers and
Providers,” says Michael Klemm, CEO of the OpenMP ARB. “She has worked
tirelessly to foster the community and promote OpenMP around the world.”

Barbara joins Partha Tirumalai of Oracle,
Josh Simons of VMware,
Kathryn O’Brien of IBM
Research, and Duncan Poole of Nvidia
on the OpenMP Board of Directors.

About OpenMP

The mission of the OpenMP ARB is to standardize directive-based
multi-language high-level parallelism that is performant, productive and
portable. Jointly defined by a group of major computer hardware and
software vendors, and users, the OpenMP API is a portable, scalable
model that gives parallel programmers a simple and flexible interface
for developing parallel applications for platforms ranging from embedded
systems and accelerator devices to multicore systems and shared-memory
systems. The OpenMP ARB owns the OpenMP brand, oversees the OpenMP
specification and produces and approves new versions of the
specification. Further information can be found at http://www.openmp.org/.

OpenMP® is a registered trademark of the OpenMP Architectural
Review Board.

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