{"id":5796,"date":"2013-11-14T16:11:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2013-11-14T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:11:31","slug":"caps-announcing-full-support-for-openacc-2-0-in-its-compilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/5796-caps-announcing-full-support-for-openacc-2-0-in-its-compilers\/","title":{"rendered":"CAPS<\/span> Announcing Full Support for OpenACC 2.0 in its Compilers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DENVER<\/span>, Colo., Nov. 14 \u2013<\/strong> CAPS<\/span> ent\u00adre\u00adpri\u00adse, lea\u00adding pro\u00advi\u00adder of HPC<\/span> com\u00adpi\u00adler tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy, is plea\u00adsed to announ\u00adce sup\u00adport for the Open\u00adACC 2.0 par\u00adal\u00adlel pro\u00adgramming stan\u00addard for acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtors in its flag\u00adship CAPS<\/span> Compilers.<\/p>\n

CAPS<\/span> ent\u00adre\u00adpri\u00adse is a foun\u00adding mem\u00adber of the Open\u00adACC stan\u00addards group and has been high\u00adly invol\u00adved in the deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of the Open\u00adACC 2.0 spe\u00adci\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon. Based on a com\u00admon set of direc\u00adti\u00adves for C and For\u00adtran lan\u00adguages, Open\u00adACC enables pro\u00adgramm\u00aders to easi\u00adly take advan\u00adta\u00adge of the pro\u00adces\u00adsing power of hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous many-core architectures.<\/p>\n

CAPS<\/span> com\u00adpi\u00adlers tar\u00adget the who\u00adle ran\u00adge of today\u2019s acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtors: NVIDIA<\/span> GPU<\/span> acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtors, AMD<\/span> GPUs\/APUs, and Intel Xeon Phi, giving users a hard\u00adware-inde\u00adpen\u00addent soft\u00adware solu\u00adti\u00adon based on a wide\u00adly used pro\u00adgramming standard.<\/p>\n

Accor\u00adding to Dr. St\u00e9\u00adpha\u00adne Chau\u00adveau, CAPS<\/span> Tech\u00adni\u00adcal Direc\u00adtor, \u201cThe Open\u00adACC 2.0 stan\u00addard offers seve\u00adral major impro\u00adve\u00adments over Open\u00adACC 1.0. Among\u00adst them, users should app\u00adre\u00adcia\u00adte a bet\u00adter asyn\u00adchro\u00adno\u00adus beha\u00advi\u00ador, a well-defi\u00adned beha\u00advi\u00ador for exter\u00adnal func\u00adtion calls within acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted regi\u00adons and seve\u00adral data manage\u00adment impro\u00adve\u00adments (such as mul\u00adti\u00addi\u00admen\u00adsio\u00adnal C\/C++ arrays) and glo\u00adbal varia\u00adbles.\u201d The Open\u00adACC stan\u00addards group is alre\u00ada\u00addy working hard on the spe\u00adci\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon of the next ver\u00adsi\u00adon that is the fruit of feed\u00adbacks from the Open\u00adACC community.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>CAPS<\/span> has an excel\u00adlent histo\u00adry of sup\u00adport\u00ading mul\u00adti\u00adple CPU<\/span> archi\u00adtec\u00adtures, inclu\u00adding x86 and ARM<\/span>, as well as mul\u00adti\u00adple acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtors, in their com\u00adpi\u00adler solu\u00adti\u00adons,\u201d said Dun\u00adcan Poo\u00adle, pre\u00adsi\u00addent of the Open\u00adACC stan\u00addards group. \u201cTheir solu\u00adti\u00adon pro\u00addu\u00adces eit\u00adher Open\u00adCL or NVIDIA<\/span> CUDA<\/span>, which gives pro\u00adgramm\u00aders a hig\u00adher-level lan\u00adguage alter\u00adna\u00adti\u00adve for pro\u00adgramming HPC<\/span> systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oak Ridge Natio\u00adnal Labo\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry is fun\u00adding the sup\u00adport of the Open\u00adACC stan\u00addard in the CAPS<\/span> Com\u00adpi\u00adlers. Oscar Her\u00adnan\u00addez, a rese\u00adarch staff at ORNL<\/span> and secre\u00adta\u00adry of the Open\u00adACC stan\u00addards group, notes, \u201cThis is an important mile\u00adstone for CAPS<\/span> that will help us to port more appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons to Titan or other acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtor-based sys\u00adtems using Open\u00adACC 2.0. Our users are eager to start using the new Open\u00adACC 2.0 features.\u201d<\/p>\n

Full sup\u00adport for the Open\u00adACC 2.0 stan\u00addard is expec\u00adted in Decem\u00adber 2013 with par\u00adti\u00adal sup\u00adport alre\u00ada\u00addy available in CAPS<\/span> Compilers.<\/p>\n

CAPS<\/span> will be at Super\u00adcom\u00adpu\u00adting 2013 (SC13<\/span>), Novem\u00adber, 18\u201321, in Den\u00adver, Colo\u00adra\u00addo, booth #1127 to show\u00adca\u00adse its flag\u00adship com\u00adpi\u00adler. CAPS<\/span> fel\u00adlows will also be pre\u00adsent in the Open\u00adACC booth, #4508.<\/p>\n

About CAPS<\/span> entreprise<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

CAPS<\/span> ent\u00adre\u00adpri\u00adse is a lea\u00adding pro\u00advi\u00adder of solu\u00adti\u00adons for pro\u00adgramming and deploy\u00ading appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons on many-core sys\u00adtems. Its source-to-source com\u00adpi\u00adlers are based on C, C++, and FORTRAN<\/span> direc\u00adti\u00adves and Open\u00adACC. CAPS<\/span> com\u00adpi\u00adlers tar\u00adget various archi\u00adtec\u00adtures, inclu\u00adding NVIDIA<\/span> GPU<\/span> acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtors, AMD<\/span> GPUs and APUs, and Intel Xeon Phi. www.caps-entreprise.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: CAPS<\/span> entreprise<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DENVER<\/span>, Colo., Nov. 14 \u2013 CAPS<\/span> ent\u00adre\u00adpri\u00adse, lea\u00adding pro\u00advi\u00adder of HPC<\/span> com\u00adpi\u00adler tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy, is plea\u00adsed to announ\u00adce sup\u00adport for the Open\u00adACC 2.0 par\u00adal\u00adlel pro\u00adgramming stan\u00addard for acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtors in its flag\u00adship CAPS<\/span> Com\u00adpi\u00adlers. (\u2026) Wei\u00adter\u00adle\u00adsen \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen","entry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5797,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions\/5797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}