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Can SYCL Slice into Broader Supercomputing?
There are a few unignorable trends in high performance computing, especially in the exascale age. …
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Programming In The Parallel Universe
This week is the eighth annual International Workshop on OpenCL, SYCL, Vulkan, and SPIR-V, and the event is available online for the very first time in its history thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. …
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OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards
Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …
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Burying The OpenMP Versus OpenACC Hatchet
I have been frequently asked when the OpenMP and OpenACC directive APIs for parallel programming will merge, or when will one of them (usually OpenMP) will replace the other. …
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OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly
OpenACC is one of the prongs in a multi-prong strategy to get people to port the parallel portions of HPC applications to accelerators. …
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Cracking Nuclear Fusion With Supercomputers And Smart Code
Nuclear fusion, the opportunity to harness the power of the stars, has been a dream of humanity from around the time of the Manhattan Project. …
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The Future of Programming GPU Supercomputers
There are few people as visible in high performance computing programming circles as Michael Wolfe—and fewer still with level of experience. …
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OpenACC Developments: Past, Present, and Future
On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform we talk with Doug Miles who runs the PGI compilers and tools team at Nvidia about the past, present, and future of OpenACC with an emphasis on what lies ahead in the next release. …
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OpenMP Has More in Store for GPU Supercomputing
Just before the large-scale GPU accelerated Titan supercomputer came online in 2012, the first use cases of the OpenACC parallel programming model showed efficient, high performance interfacing with GPUs on big HPC systems. …
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Key Software Firms Reengineer Their Code With OpenACC
Academic centers and government agencies often design and write their own applications, but some of them and the vast majority of enterprise customers with HPC applications usually depend on third parties for their software. …