The Khronos Group today formally launched SYCL 2020, the parallel programming framework based on IS0 standard C++ that has been gaining traction in HPC and will, for example, be supported on the forthcoming exascale supercomputer Aurora (ANL) and pre-exascale system Perlmutter (NERSC/LBNL). SYCL 2020 builds on the functionality of SYCL 1.2.1. adding 40-plus new features and introduces a new naming convention based on the year. SYCL 2020 is based on C++17.
Feb. 5, 2021
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne National Laboratory, has signed a contract with Codeplay Software to enhance the LLVM SYCL GPU compiler capabilities for NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
This collaboration will help NERSC and ALCF users, along with the high-performance computing community in general, produce high-performance applications that are portable across compute architectures from multiple vendors.
Jan. 31, 2021
Stay up-to-date on the latest news, events and resources for the OpenACC community. This month’s Highlights covers working on applications for the new Frontier supercomputer, using OpenACC for weather forecasting, upcoming GPU Hackathons and Bootcamps, and new resources!
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Jan. 12, 2021
For those who follow supercomputing, weather forecasting is one area to watch for systems that are designed for maximum capability. Unlike the many other areas in HPC, GPUs are not endemic. There are a few exceptions but generally, they only exist because the underlying codes are GPU native.