openmp-6-0

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description	Authoritative knowledge base from the OpenMP API v6.0 specification (Nov 2024) + the Nov-2025 errata (corrections applied inline). CONSULT THIS BEFORE ANSWERING — do not answer OpenMP questions from memory; directive/clause semantics, data-sharing vs data-mapping rules, the flush memory model, schedule/tasking/offload behavior, and the runtime API are subtle and version-sensitive. TRIGGER whenever a question concerns: writing/reading/debugging any OpenMP directive (#pragma omp / !$omp); multithreading or GPU/device offload in C/C++/Fortran via OpenMP; data-sharing clauses (shared/private/firstprivate/lastprivate/reduction) or data-mapping (map/target); parallel/teams/simd/masked, worksharing (for/sections/single/distribute/schedule), tasking (task/taskloop/taskgraph/depend), synchronization (barrier/critical/atomic/ordered/flush), the device model (target/declare target), memory allocators/spaces, variant directives (metadirective/declare variant), the omp_* runtime API, OMP_* environment variables/ICVs, OMPT/OMPD tools, or a v6.0 / errata detail. SKIP only when the user explicitly wants OpenACC, CUDA, or a vendor-compiler-specific (gcc/llvm/nvhpc) behavior rather than the OpenMP standard.
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OpenMP Application Programming Interface — Version 6.0

Source: OpenMP API v6.0 (Nov 2024) + Errata Nov 2025 (11 corrections applied inline) | Pages: ~964 | Chapters: 19 (grouped from 37 spec chapters + appendices) | _OPENMP: 202411 | Generated: 2026-06-09

How to Use This Skill

• Without arguments — load the execution/memory model + data-environment core below.
• With a topic — ask about data clauses, map, tasking, target, schedule, atomic, metadirective; I read the relevant chapter.
• With a directive/clause — name it (firstprivate, taskloop, distribute); I find the chapter.
• With an omp_ routine / OMP_ var — → ch17 / ch04.
• With a chapter — ch07 (data), ch12 (parallelism), ch14 (tasking), ch15 (device).

This is the specification (+ errata), not a tutorial — answers cite sections. Errata corrections are marked ⚠ in ch07/08/10/14/17. Pairs with openacc-3.4, fortran-2023-standard, and CLAUDE-gpu.md.

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Core Frameworks & Mental Models

Execution model (Ch 1) — three parallelism axes

• threads (parallel → team, fork-join, end barrier), tasks (task → deferrable work units with depend DAG), devices (target → offload), plus SIMD (simd). Modern code composes all four.
• Entity hierarchy: device ⊃ contention group (thread pool) ⊃ team; teams makes a league. No portable synchronization across teams/contention groups (deadlock risk).
• User-directed: the implementation checks nothing — you own race/deadlock/dependence correctness.

Two attribute systems (Ch 7) — never conflate

• data-sharing (thread level): shared / private / firstprivate / lastprivate / reduction / linear. Use default(none) to force explicit classification (like implicit none).
• data-mapping (device level): map(to/from/tofrom/alloc) moves data to/from a device data environment. A variable can be both privatized and mapped.

Memory model (Ch 16) — visibility is not automatic

• Cross-thread visibility needs synchronizing flushes: a release flush before an acquire flush of the same data establishes happens-before. barrier, critical, atomic (with order), and task scheduling imply flushes. Without them, threads see stale values.

Worksharing & scheduling (Ch 13)

• for/do (thread worksharing), sections, single, distribute (across teams), loop (descriptive/portable). schedule: static (uniform, cache-friendly), dynamic/guided (irregular), runtime (OMP_SCHEDULE). nowait drops the end barrier (only when independent).

Device offload (Ch 15) — the GPU model

• target teams distribute parallel for is the canonical offload idiom. Hoist data: target enter data map(to:) once + resident kernels + target exit data map(from:) — avoid per-kernel transfers (the dominant perf lever). map(to/from) not blanket tofrom. OMP_TARGET_OFFLOAD=MANDATORY to catch silent host fallback.

Tasking (Ch 14)

• task depend(in/out/inout: ...) builds a data-flow DAG the runtime schedules — replace manual barriers. taskgraph (6.0) records/replays a stable task graph. Generate tasks from one thread (single/masked); cut recursion with final.

Correctness traps (cross-referenced to your memory)

• cpu_time/clock() for parallel timing is wrong — use omp_get_wtime + synchronization (a missing join/barrier fakes huge speedups; cf. feedback_gpu_benchmark_timing).
• Consumer NVIDIA GPUs: 1:64 FP64:FP32 → FP32-store/FP64-compute is slower than full FP64 (reference_consumer_gpu_fp64_trap).
• Manual accumulation into a shared var is a race — use reduction. atomic only for irregular scatter.

v6.0 highlights

Loop-transform constructs + apply (ch11) · taskgraph/replayable (ch14) · free-agent threads · safesync · masked replaces master · expanded allocators/memspaces (ch8) · richer metadirective/declare variant (ch9) · atomic compare CAS (ch16).

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Chapter Index

#	Covers	Key topics
ch01	Ch 1	execution model, contention groups, OMPT/OMPD, compliance
ch02	Ch 2	normative terms; data-sharing vs mapping; memory model terms
ch03	Ch 3	ICVs, scopes, precedence
ch04	Ch 4	OMP_* env vars, affinity, offload policy
ch05	Ch 5	directive/clause syntax, array sections, iterators, _OPENMP
ch06	Ch 6	structured block, canonical loop nest, C/C++/Fortran binding
ch07 ⚠	Ch 7	data-sharing + data-mapping clauses, reductions, defaultmap
ch08 ⚠	Ch 8	memory spaces, allocators, traits (HBM/NUMA)
ch09	Ch 9	metadirective, declare variant, dispatch, contexts
ch10 ⚠	Ch 10	assume, error, requires (USM)
ch11	Ch 11	tile/unroll/interchange/fuse + apply
ch12	Ch 12	parallel, teams, simd, masked, num_threads, proc_bind
ch13	Ch 13	for/sections/single/distribute/scan, schedule, loop
ch14 ⚠	Ch 14	task, taskloop, taskgraph, depend
ch15	Ch 15-16	target, map, declare target, interop
ch16	Ch 17-19	barrier/critical/atomic/ordered/flush, cancel, composition
ch17 ⚠	Ch 20-30	omp_* runtime API, device memory, locks, timing
ch18	Ch 31-37	OMPT (profiling), OMPD (debugging)
ch19	App A-D	impl-defined, history, nesting, compound directives

(⚠ = contains Nov-2025 errata corrections.)

Topic Index

• affinity / proc_bind / places → ch04, ch12
• allocators / memory spaces (HBM/NUMA) → ch08, ch17
• assume / requires / unified_shared_memory → ch10
• atomic / critical / flush / memory model → ch16, ch02
• barrier / nowait → ch13, ch16
• canonical loop / structured block → ch06
• cancellation → ch16, ch01
• data-mapping / map / target data → ch07, ch15
• data-sharing (shared/private/firstprivate/reduction) → ch07
• declare target / declare variant → ch15, ch09
• depend / task DAG → ch14, ch16
• device offload / target / teams → ch15, ch12
• environment variables (OMP_*) → ch04
• errata (Nov 2025) → cheatsheet, ch07/08/10/14/17
• ICVs → ch03
• interop (CUDA stream) → ch15, ch17
• loop construct / loop transforms (tile/unroll) → ch13, ch11
• metadirective / context → ch09
• OMPT / OMPD / tools → ch18
• parallel / teams / masked / simd → ch12
• reduction (incl. scan, task) → ch07, ch13, ch14
• runtime API (omp_*) → ch17
• schedule (static/dynamic/guided) → ch13
• synchronization → ch16
• target offload pattern → ch15
• taskgraph / replayable (6.0) → ch14
• tasking (task/taskloop) → ch14
• timing (omp_get_wtime) → ch17
• worksharing (for/sections/single/distribute) → ch13

Supporting Files

• glossary.md — normative terms + directive/clause vocabulary
• patterns.md — OpenMP idioms (offload, tasking DAG, NUMA, timing)
• cheatsheet.md — errata table + clause decision rules + tells & smells

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Scope & Limits

Covers OpenMP API v6.0 (Nov 2024) with the Nov-2025 errata folded in (the 11 corrections are marked ⚠ in their chapters and tabulated in cheatsheet.md). Extracted with pdftotext (docling garbles this spec class — see the fortran-2023-standard note). This is the standard — implementation-defined behavior (default schedule/thread count, device mapping, lock fairness) lives in ch19/Appendix A and your compiler's docs (GCC libgomp, LLVM, NVHPC). Stubs, interface declarations, examples, and grammar are separate OpenMP documents, not in this spec. For OpenACC use openacc-3.4; for Fortran base-language rules fortran-2023-standard; for GPU/HPC practice CLAUDE-gpu.md.