Accelerate your application with OpenACC
Gunter Röth, NVIDIA
Learn how to accelerate your C/C++/Fortran application using OpenACC to harness the massively parallel power of NVIDIA GPUs. OpenACC is a directive based approach to computing where you provide compiler hints to accelerate your code, instead of writing the accelerator code yourself. In 90 minutes, you will experience a four-step process for accelerating applications using OpenACC:
- Identify parallelism with profiler
- Add loop parallelization directives (Jacobi Solver)
- Explicit loop parallelization
- Optimize Kernel Scheduling using gang and vector directives
An advanced tutorial session will furthermore be proposed over the next 90 minutes, with a choice on the following topics:
- Profiling and Parallelizing with OpenACC
- Expressing Data Movement and Optimizing Loops with OpenACC
- Pipelining Work on the GPU with OpenACC
Futher details on the quicklab website Requirements for attendees:
- each attendee needs to bring his/her laptop with wifi access to internet
- attendees need to pre-register so we create a qwiklab login for them with their email address beforehand, at https://nvidia.qwiklab.com
Bio Dr Gunter Roeth joined NVIDIA as a Solution Architect in October 2014, having previously worked at Cray, HP, Sun Microsystems and most recently BULL. He has a Master in geophysics from the Institut de Physique du Globe (IPG) in Paris and has completed a PhD in seismology on the use of neural networks (artificial intelligence) for interpreting geophysical data.
