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OpenACC Adoption Continues to Gain Momentum in 2016

November 7, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

Multiple Onsite Events at SC16 in Salt Lake City to Showcase Recent Advances BEND, OREGON– NOVEMBER 7, 2016 – The OpenACC standards group today announced several major milestones including the addition of new member, the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, the adoption of OpenACC by several major HPC applications, the addition of support for new target platforms and … [Read more...]

NVIDIA Pascal in the Wild

August 15, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang last week hand-delivered an  NVIDIA DGX-1 to OpenAI in San Francisco. “I thought it was incredibly appropriate that the world’s first supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence would go to the laboratory that was dedicated to open artificial intelligence,” Huang said. OpenAI’s team is working at the cutting-edge of a field that promises … [Read more...]

Pascal upgrade and Intel Xeon Phi at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

April 8, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

It was announced at GTC 2016 that the Piz Daint system at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland will be upgraded to 4,500 Pascal GPUs. No date was stated for when the upgrade will be completed. The upgrade is expected to more than double the performance of Piz Daint, which currently provides 7.8 PF/s of performance. The announcement provides a … [Read more...]

NVIDIA’s Pascal GPUs spell the end of ‘offload mode is required’ for accelerators

April 5, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

Today at the 2016 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the first of a new line of Pascal architecture GPUs- the P100. Jen-Hsun noted that the P100 GPUs are in volume production now, but the initial production runs have already been purchased. Consumers should look to first run on the P100 GPUs in the cloud. While Jen-Hsun's keynote focused … [Read more...]

OpenACC Highlights at GTC 2016

March 31, 2016 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

GTC 2016,  the upcoming GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which is being held in San Jose, CA April 4-7, 2016 contains several OpenACC talks of note. If you are attending, check out the following OpenACC related activities. If not, NVIDIA will put the videos online within a short period after the conference. S6524 - Enabling the Electronic Structure Program Gaussian on GPGPUs … [Read more...]

SC15 – Accelerator Use in World’s Top Supercomputers

November 16, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

NVIDIA notes more than 100 accelerated systems now on TOP500 list TOP500 Highlights: One-third of FLOPS now powered by accelerators NVIDIA Tesla GPUs sweep 23 of 24 new accelerated supercomputers Tesla supercomputers growing at 48% CAGR over past five years AUSTIN, Texas—SC15—Nov. 16, 2015—Today’s list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers shows the extent to which … [Read more...]

Pre-order Your $599 Tegra X1 Powered TX1 Developer Kit

November 11, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

NVIDIA is now taking pre-orders for the Tegra X1 powered TX1 development kit at the NVIDIA online store. You can develop OpenACC, CUDA, and OpenCL codes for this 64-bit ARM based system! No word yet on pricing of the actual credit card sized TX1 computer. JETSON TX1 MODULE NVIDIA Maxwell™ GPU with 256 NVIDIA® CUDA® Cores Quad-core ARM® Cortex®-A57 MPCore … [Read more...]

Excellent x86 Performance! – PGI Accelerator Compilers Add OpenACC Support for x86 Multicore CPUs

October 29, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

TechEnablement - OpenACC x86 multi-core performance matches that of the Intel compiler using OpenMP when using the latest 15.10 version of the Portland Group compiler. Note: two MPI instances per GPU were required to fully utilize the NVIDIA K80 GPU as the problem sizes were too small to fully utilize the GPU with a single instance. SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Oct. 29, … [Read more...]

Now Online – Presentations and Videos from Houston 2015 Directives and Tools for Accelerators Workshop

October 27, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

The presentations and videos from the October 12 University of Houston "2015 Directives and Tools for Accelerators" workshop are now available online. As with last year's workshop, this workshop was also considered a complete success Topics covered include: Usage of directives’ that preserves a single code base, accelerates for GPUs, and offers cross-platform … [Read more...]

The First of NVIDIA’s Free OpenACC Courses is Online!

October 11, 2015 by Rob Farber Leave a Comment

The first of NVIDIA's free online OpenACC course (Download / Stream, Slides,Q&A), lab (in C/C++ or Fortran), and online "office hours" (Download / Stream, Slides) is available to everyone!  OpenACC is a programming approach designed to minimize developer effort while delivering performance portability on x86 CPUs and GPUs. The 8-week online OpenACC course described on … [Read more...]

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