ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1817

       OpenMP ARB Liaison Report presented to the meeting of
         ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (Fortran), Las Vegas, USA, 
                   February 15-19, 2010
                   
                   Matthijs van Waveren

OpenMP 3.0 was released in May 2008. The main addition in OpenMP 3.0
was the concept of tasks. Now when any thread encounters a task
construct, a new explicit task is generated. Execution of explicitly
generated tasks is assigned to one of the threads in the current team,
subject to the thread's availability to execute work. Thus, execution
of the new task could be immediate, or deferred until later. Threads
are allowed to suspend the current task region at a task scheduling
point in order to execute a different task.

Currently the OpenMP ARB has started developing OpenMP 3.1, which is
scheduled to be released for public review at IWOMP, the International
Workshop for OpenMP, in June 2010. This update will include
clarifications, and several extensions.