West Virginia University to Host OpenMP Workshop with Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

West Virginia University (WVU) will host a site for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s (PSC) one-day “Shared Memory Programming Using OpenMP” workshop on March 11, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT. The workshop, designed for C and Fortran programmers, will provide a hands-on introduction to OpenMP programming techniques for writing scalable code.

Workshop Details

The workshop will be held in Room 104 at the Downtown Library on the WVU campus. It will utilize the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform, and will be an in-person event. There will be no direct-to-desktop option available.

Registration Information

Interested participants must first have an ACCESS ID. If you do not already have one, you can create an account on the ACCESS User Registration page.

After obtaining an ACCESS ID, participants should login to the ACCESS Pages and register for the workshop through the site they wish to attend by Monday, March 9 at 11 AM Eastern time. Available sites include:

• University of Arizona
• Carnegie Mellon University/PSC
• University of Delaware
• University of Houston – Clear Lake
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory – NASA (Not Open To Public)
• University of Michigan
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Purdue University
• Stony Brook University/IAC
• Texas Tech University
• West Virginia University
• Yale Center for Research Computing

Workshop Agenda (Tentative)

The workshop will follow a tentative agenda as follows:

• 11:00 AM: Welcome
• 11:15 AM: Computing Environment
• 11:30 AM: It’s a Multi-core World
• 12:00 PM: Intro to OpenMP
• 1:00 PM: Lunch break
• 2:45 PM: Advanced OpenMP
• 4:30 PM: OpenMP and GPUs
• 5:00 PM: Adjourn

About OpenMP

OpenMP is a widely used API for shared-memory parallel programming. It allows developers to easily parallelize code, taking advantage of multi-core processors to improve performance. The workshop will cover the fundamentals of OpenMP, including directives, clauses, and runtime control.

Contact Information

Questions regarding the workshop can be directed to Tom Maiden at tmaiden@psc.edu.