This document specifies a collection of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that can be used to specify shared-memory parallelism in C, C++ and Fortran programs. This functionality collectively defines the specification of the OpenMP Application Program Interface (OpenMP API). This specification provides a model for parallel programming that is portable across shared memory architectures from different vendors. Compilers from numerous vendors support the OpenMP API. More information about OpenMP can be found at the following web site: