Design, Development and Validation of DPC++ backend for OCCA
TECH TALK
Design, Development and Validation of DPC++ backend for OCCA
OCCA—an open source, portable, and vendor neutral framework for programming parallel architectures—is used by the U.S. Department of Energy and Shell in major scientific and engineering applications. This talk will provide insight into the development of a DPC++ backend for OCCA. Integral to this effort is the DPC++ Unified Shared Memory (USM) model. Factors influencing choices related to kernel translation and launching will also be discussed. The functional accuracy of an initial implementation of a the OCCA DPC++ backend is validated on Intel GPU hardware. Finally, ongoing validation and performance analysis efforts will be outlined, along with plans for future development.
Speaker(s)
Anoop Madhusoodhanan Prabha
Anoop is a Senior Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel specializing in Heterogeneous computing and code modernization. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo.
Cedric Andreolli
Cedric is an Application Engineer working on codesign projects at Intel. His expertise includes optimization of HPC workloads as well as application characterization. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from INSA in France.
Saumil Sudhir Patel
Saumil is an Assistant Computational Scientist in the Computational Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The City College of New York.
Kris Rowe
Kris is an Assistant Computational Scientist in the Performance Engineering Group at Argonne National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility. He holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
