The detailed development of an OpenACC application
Andy Herdman; Wayne Gaudin; Oliver Perks AWE plc, Reading, United Kingdom
Abstract
This chapter describes the step-by-step approach, along with the incremental performance gains and issues inhibiting performance, of applying the OpenACC directive model to the CloverLeaf mini-app, resulting in a fully resident, multiGPU version of the application. Although this chapter primarily discusses development using the Cray compiling environment and a Cray XK6 hardware platform, the authors believe the concepts and step-by-step approach can be applied to anyone wishing to utilize OpenACC as a mechanism to accelerate their current serial, MPI, OpenMP or hybrid MPI + OpenMP application. ...
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