Release 14.7 of the PGI compiler is now available for download. PGI Accelerator Features and Enhancements Support for CUDA managed data in CUDA Fortran Expanded OpenACC C++ Support Expanded OpenACC Features C global (extern) variables in OpenACC declare directives Fortran module variables in OpenACC declare directives Full support for the atomic … [Read more...]
Registration Open Until Aug 29 for ORNL OpenACC Hackathon
Get expert help and training plus get your code running on accelerators with OpenACC! Registration is now open for the OpenACC Hackathon at ORNL. The entry period will stay open for only 2 weeks and will close August 29th. Selected teams will be notified September 5th. Prior GPU experience is not required! Details Start: October 27 @ 8:00 amEnd: October 31 @ 1:00 … [Read more...]
Berkeley Online and Onsite 2014 Short Course on Parallel Programming – Aug. 18
Monday August 18, 2014 the Berkeley EECS ( Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, UC Berkeley) will provide an on-site and on-line introduction to parallel architectures and programming issues, a thorough exposure to languages and tools for shared memory programming, including hands-on experience, a presentation of high level programming parallel … [Read more...]
OpenACC OLCF Hackathon – Applications Accepted Aug 15 – 29
Oakridge National Laboratory announces the OLCF’s first ever hackathon will take place October 27-31, 2014. Apply between 15 - 29. Contact Fernanda Foertter. So what is this all about? Teams of developers will attend a 5-day intensive hands-on workshop guided by OpenACC mentors. These experts come from labs, universities and vendors and will guide your team from start to … [Read more...]
University of Houston Call To Participate in Oil and Gas Workshop Oct 20
The University of Houston Center for Advanced Computing & Data Systems is reaching out to Oil and Gas domain scientists/researchers who are keen to hear about alternative high-level programming models used to port seismic codes to use accelerators. High-level models such as OpenACC/OpenMP proposes to be more portable and more vendor neutral, and may be complementary to … [Read more...]
Argonne Extreme Training for Exascale Starts Aug 4th Covering OpenACC, OpenMP, MPI, and Vectorization
The Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing starts next week. Paul Messina believes more institutions - including universities - need to offer such advanced training. The complexities of exascale computing are the reason as programming the current generation of leadership class machines requires knowledge of a broad spectrum of topics and many skills: both … [Read more...]
SC14 Technical Program and Registration – XSEDE/TACC Resources for Farber Tutorial
Register early for Supercomputing 2014 in New Orleans and save up to $275. View the Technical Program online (and register for our tutorial!) The Technical Program fee includes admission to all conference sessions, exhibits, the Monday night Exhibits opening event, Thursday night event, and one copy of the SC14 proceedings. Click here to view the grid showing access to … [Read more...]
NCSA (XSEDE) to Host OpenACC Aug 5th Workshop Using Blue Waters – Only Few Sites Can Receive Telecast
NCSA and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project that it leads, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, will present an OpenACC GPU programming workshop on Aug. 5. The workshop will have a hands-on component using NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer. Register through the online XSEDE portal. Send questions to Tom Maiden at … [Read more...]
TechEnablement Adds Funding Opportunity Posts via Dr. William Reynolds
TechEnablement is pleased to announce that Dr. William Reynolds PhD - an expert in applied scientific computing, funding proposals, and government research, - will be identifying pending funding opportunities for our readership. These posts will round out the TechEnablement content pool to (1) educate readers about the current technology, (2) plan both applications and … [Read more...]
ARM64 and x86 With OpenMP 4.0 For HPC and Enterprise in GNU and Possibly Clang
The OpenMP 4.0 specification is moving quickly to implementation through the GNU toolchain and Clang. TechEnablement reported that GNU 4.9.1 now supports OpenMP in C/C++ and Fortran plus we now have confirmation that OpenMP will run on ARM64 as well, or as Jakub Jelinek wrote, "All architectures where libgomp is supported (which is essentially all which have pthreads)." The … [Read more...]