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SSP Project Summary:
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Student
Mark Kambites, University of York
Supervisors
Mark Bull, EPCC
Martin Westhead, EPCC
The aim of this project is to implement a compiler to support a subset
of OpenMP for Java. OpenMP is a specification of directives and library
routines for shared memory parallel programming, and is currently
defined for Fortran, C and C++. This project will investigate the
definition and implementation of OpenMP for Java, based on Java's native
threads model. The initial part of the project will require the design
of the specification, including how best to embed OpenMP directives in
Java and which subset of OpenMP is to be supported. A run-time class
library will then be defined and written which will provide the
necessary functionality for implementing OpenMP constructs in terms of
Java's own threads model. Finally a compiler will be built which will
take Java with OpenMP directives and translate this into Java with calls
to the run-time library.
The final report for this project is available here.
Mark is now a postgraduate student at the University of York and his
personal webpage can be found here.
And finally, here is a link to the JOMP homepage.
Webpage maintained by
mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk