Topic: openacc
Checking in with OpenACC
The SC16 conference in Salt Lake City this week highlighted the future of the high-performance, highly scaled application. That future, it would appear, involves at least the PCI bus, if not explicitly GPUs. At the event, Cray, NVIDIA and PGI discussed the future of the OpenACC standards, which are beginning to turn toward Intel’s hardware, … continue reading
OpenACC prepares to spread to other architectures
NVIDIA has two major markets these days: gamers and scientists. While the company unveiled its latest GPUs last month to the delight of gamers, today at the ISC Conference for high-performance computing in Germany the company unveiled a beta version of the new compiler for the OpenPOWER platform. The OpenPOWER Foundation, of which NVIDIA is … continue reading
From the Editors: Here come OpenMP and OpenACC
OpenMP, while not perfect, should not be subjected to hardball between chipmakers … continue reading
Intel, NVIDIA take different HPC paths in 2014
OpenACC inclusion in GCC raises ire in OpenMP community, while HPC remains hot market for chipmakers … continue reading
