OpenMP is the unsung backbone of parallel computing, powerful, portable, and surprisingly simple. The OpenMP ARB is a not-for-profit organisation based in the United States, but its reach is global. During the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers used OpenMP to accelerate drug discovery by parallelising ligand-grid algorithms within AutoDock 4.2. As computing systems become more heterogeneous and workloads more complex, OpenMP continues to adapt. That choice is what makes OpenMP a powerful tool in the modern computing landscape.