For over a week—from February 21 to 29, 2024—nine teams of computational scientists and Earth system science researchers came together to hack their code, build their software development skills, and improve their projects. In the process, participants experienced the real-life benefits of practicing Open Science.
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Jan. 30, 2024
Stay up-to-date on the latest news, research, and resources: This month's edition covers 2024 predictions across the HPC and AI industry, NSF's National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot, the role of compilers in scientific computing, on-demand and upcoming webinars, and more!
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Jan. 29, 2024
The GCC 14.1 stable compiler release due out in the coming months will now have initial working support for both AMD RDNA2 (GFX10.3) and RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics processors. This is intended for OpenMP and OpenACC offloading to the GPUs.
Dec. 28, 2023
Here's a fresh look at the GCC vs. Clang C/C++ compiler performance of various resulting application binaries tested on x86_64. GCC 13 vs. Clang 17 were tested as what's readily available on Ubuntu 23.10 Linux plus a look ahead in using the latest GCC 14 and LLVM Clang 18 development snapshots as of this week.