The IDEAS Productivity project, in partnership with the DOE Computing Facilities of the ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP), is resuming the webinar series on Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, which we began last year.
As part of this series, we will offer one-hour webinars on topics in scientific software development and high-performance computing, approximately once a month. Participation is free and open to the public, but registration will be required for each event.
The next webinar in the series was “Using the Roofline Model and Intel Advisor” with speaker Sam Williams of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This webinar took place on August 16, 2017 and you can find a copy of the presentation and the video from the webinar in the Presentation Materials section below.
The DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is pleased to sponsor a webinar presented by Michael Wolfe of NVIDIA titled “Scalable Node Programming with OpenACC” that took place on Wednesday, September 20, at 1:00 pm ET.
Supercomputer nodes are becoming more parallel with each generation. HPC applications must now utilize parallelism on-node as well as across many nodes for performance. OpenACC is designed to expose and exploit parallelism, whether that be for a multicore, a manycore, or a GPU-accelerated node.
This webinar discussed:
- what problems OpenACC addresses;
- the important elements of OpenACC;
- how and why OpenACC is being adopted and used in production science and engineering applications, including Gaussian, Fluent, VASP, and several weather and climate codes;
- current status of OpenACC tools and of the specification;
- building and using applications with OpenACC for different targets;
- the OpenACC community and user events;
- new features requested by users coming with OpenACC 2.6 and beyond.
