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...]
GCC 4.9.1 Adds OpenMP 4.0 Fortran Support for Multicore
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com> posted on July 16th that the GCC 4.9.1 release now supports OpenMP 4.0 in Fortran (as well as C/C++). This is great news for multi-core programmers. GCC looks to be on-track to become the opensource platform that both Intel Xeon Phi and GPU programmers can use to to test pragma based programming. As reported on techEnablement.com, … [Read more...]
GCC likely to support both OpenACC and Intel Xeon Phi Offload Pragmas in 2015
It looks like GCC will be supporting both OpenACC and Intel Xeon Phi offload pragmas in future releases. Perhaps the GNU compiler chain will become the melting pot where OpenACC and OpenMP 4.0 pragmas merge to become a single unified syntax. According to Nathan Sidwell, Director of Sourcery Services at Mentor Embedded, their OpenACC effort is working to “make the underlying … [Read more...]
Farber to Teach All-Day Tutorial At Supercomputing Nov 16 2014
Supercomputing 2014 recently approved my proposal for an all-day class "From 'Hello World' to Exascale Using x86, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors" (tut106s1), at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC14). I hope to see you on Sunday November 16, 2014 in New Orleans,! Abstract Both GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi … [Read more...]
ARM64 with CUDA Early Access Boards Now Available
The X-Gene™ ARM64 and CUDA Development Platform for High Performance Computing (HPC) is now available to order from Cirrascale, the US Applied Micro (APM) integration partner. This board represents an entry point for ARM64 + CUDA into the enterprise markets as well. The X-Gene™ board features custom high-performance ARM v8 processor based on an advanced 64-bit ARM … [Read more...]