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OpenMP lacks essential features for developing mission-critical software. In particular, it has no support for detecting and handling errors or even a concept of them. In this paper, the OpenMP Error Model Subcommittee reports on solutions under consideration for this major omission. We identify issues with the current OpenMP specification and propose a path to extend OpenMP with error-handling capabilities. We add a construct that cleanly shuts down parallel regions as a first step. We then discuss two orthogonal proposals that extend OpenMP with features to handle system-level and user-defined errors.
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Wong, M. et al. (2010). Towards an Error Model for OpenMP. In: Sato, M., Hanawa, T., Müller, M.S., Chapman, B.M., de Supinski, B.R. (eds) Beyond Loop Level Parallelism in OpenMP: Accelerators, Tasking and More. IWOMP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13217-9_6
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