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HPC Heavyweight Goes All-In On OpenACC
Across the HPC community, commercial firms, government labs and academic institutions are adapting their code to embrace GPU architectures. …
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One Programming Model To Support Them All
Many hands make light work, or so they say. So do many cores, many threads and many data points when addressed by a single computing instruction. …
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Parallel Programming Approaches for Accelerated Systems Compared
In high performance computing, machine learning, and a growing set of other application areas, accelerated, heterogeneous systems are becoming the norm. …
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KAUST Hackathon Shows OpenACC Global Appeal
OpenACC’s global attraction can be seen in the recent February 2017 OpenACC mini-hackathon and GPU conference at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology) in Saudi Arabia. …
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Chasing The Dream Of Code HPC Once, Run Anywhere
In many ways, enterprises and hyperscalers have it easy. Very quickly in the wake of its announcement more than two decades ago, the Java programming language, a kind of virtualized C++, became the de facto standard for coding enterprise applications that run the business. …
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The Challenge Of Coding Across HPC Architectures
With the International Supercomputing 2016 conference fast approaching, the HPC community is champing at the bit to share insights on the latest technologies and techniques to make simulation and modeling applications scale further and run faster. …
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Programming Toward Exascale: A Look Ahead at OpenACC in 2016
Although there will be some meaty hardware and systems news in high performance computing over the course of 2016, this will be the year that programming models for HPC systems take center stage, especially as large supercomputing sites prepare for their first waves of pre-exascale machines. …
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Is OpenACC The Best Thing To Happen To OpenMP?
The choice of programming tools and programming models is a deeply personal thing to a lot of the techies in the high performance computing space, much as it can be in other areas of the IT sector. …