Parallel Programming with OpenACC

by Rob Farber

Overview

Parallel Programming with OpenACC is a modern, practical guide to implementing dependable computing systems. The book explains how anyone can use OpenACC to quickly ramp-up application performance using high-level code directives called pragmas. The OpenACC directive-based programming model is designed to provide a simple, yet powerful, approach to accelerators without significant programming effort. Author Rob Farber, working with a team of expert contributors, demonstrates how to turn existing applications into portable GPU accelerated programs that demonstrate immediate speedups. The book also helps users get the most from the latest NVIDIA and AMD GPU plus multicore CPU architectures (and soon for Intel® Xeon Phi™ as well). Downloadable example codes provide hands-on OpenACC experience for common problems in scientific, commercial, big-data, and real-time systems. Topics include writing reusable code, asynchronous capabilities, using libraries, multicore clusters, and much more. Each chapter explains how a specific aspect of OpenACC technology fits, how it works, and the pitfalls to avoid. Throughout, the book demonstrates how the use of simple working examples that can be adapted to solve application needs. - Presents the simplest way to leverage GPUs to achieve application speedups - Shows how OpenACC works, including working examples that can be adapted for application needs - Allows readers to download source code and slides from the book's companion web page

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780124104594
Publisher:	Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Publication date:	10/14/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	326
File size:	73 MB
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About the Author

Rob Farber has served as a scientist in Europe at the Irish Center for High-End Computing as well as U.S. national labs in Los Alamos, Berkeley, and the Pacific Northwest. He has also been on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, consultant to fortune 100 companies, and co-founder of two computational startups that achieved liquidity events. He is the author of "CUDA Application Design and Development as well as numerous articles and tutorials that have appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal and Scientific Computing, The Code Project and others.
Rob Farber has served as a scientist in Europe at the Irish Center for High-End Computing as well as U.S. national labs in Los Alamos, Berkeley, and the Pacific Northwest. He has also been on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, consultant to fortune 100 companies, and co-founder of two computational startups that achieved liquidity events. He is the author of “CUDA Application Design and Development” as well as numerous articles and tutorials that have appeared in Dr. Dobb's Journal and Scientific Computing, The Code Project and others.

Table of Contents

ForewordMichael Wolfe1. From Serial to Parallel Programming using OpenACCRob Farber2. Profile-Guided Development with OpenACCJeff Larkin3. Profiling Performance of Hybrid Applications with Score-P and VampirGuido Jukeland4. Pipelining Data Transfers with OpenACCJeff Larkin 5. Advanced Data ManagementMat Colgrove6. Tuning OpenACC loop executionSaber Feki7. Multi Device Programming with OpenACCJiri Kraus 8. Using OpenACC for Stencil and Feldkamp Algorithms Sunita Chandrasekaran 9. Accelerating 3D Wave Equations using OpenACC Ty McKercher10. The   Detailed   Development   of   an OpenACC ApplicationAndy Herdman11. GPU-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Clustering Analysis with OpenACCJohn Stone12. Incrementally accelerating the RI-MP2 correlated method of electronic structure theory using OpenACC compiler directivesJanus J. Eriksen13. Using OpenACC to port large legacy climate and weather modelling code to GPUsXavier Lapillonne

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This practical guide shows how anyone can use OpenACC with CPUs, GPUs, and other accelerators to improve application performance