Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP) PROTEAS-TUNE project to develop production OpenACC compiler support for Clang and the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project (LLVM).
Feb. 25, 2021
Stay up-to-date on the latest news, events and resources for the OpenACC community. This month’s Highlights covers the GPU Hackathon Mentor Program, the Helmholtz virtual hackathon, GTC21, upcoming GPU Hackathons and Bootcamps, and new resources!
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Feb. 22, 2021
In July 2020, EPEEC announced the development of OmpSs-2@OpenACC [1] by the BSC Accelerators and Communication team using ZPIC [2], developed by INESC-ID, as our driving application. They have continued to improve the interoperation and co-design mechanisms by the addition of an affinity scheduler to minimize device-to-device communication. They currently outperform an equivalent multi-GPU OpenMP+OpenACC version of ZPIC without the programmer needing to manually manage asynchronous kernels or scheduling kernels to specific devices.
Feb. 9, 2021
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.