Webinar on Programming Heterogeneous X64+GPU Systems Using OpenACC

Heterogeneous high performance systems have evolved from experimental platforms to mainstream supercomputers and clusters. The current common architecture uses a 64-buit X86 host processor with one or more accelerators per node. The most common accelerators today are GPUs. Their success has led to the recent introduction of x86-based purpose-built accelerators. This presentation will start by describing current heterogeneous system architectures and what changes we can expect in the near future. Programming heterogeneous systems presents new additional challenges. First a programmer must consider whether the algorithm and data layout are appropriate for efficient acceleration and if so, which computations to move to the accelerator. Other challenges include minimizing data movement between host and accelerator memories, determining how to effectively utilize both the accelerator and the very powerful host processor and how to preserve the existing investment in the application as well as future-proofing updates made to enable acceleration. This presentation will very briefly cover the advantages and costs of using low-level models, such as CUDA and OpenCL. It will then focus on OpenACC, a high level, directive-based programming model that addresses the critical issues of performance, portability and productivity for programming accelerated heterogeneous systems.

Who Should Attend

Technical Computing Managers Systems Managers Research Managers IT or Infrastructure Managers Domain Experts Programmers Engineers and Systems Analysts who are interested in porting existing Fortran, C or C++ codes to run on GPU accelerators

Date & Time - Thursday May 23, 2013, 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT / 18:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour) Speaker - Michael Wolfe Webinar URL - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/webinars/Register-for-a-Webinar

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