Multicore Heterogeneous Computing with OpenACC

Abstract

OpenACC it is a standard programming language for programming heterogeneous computers built from CPUs, GPUs and DSP. It includes a framework of OpenAcc to define the platform in terms of a host (e.g. a CPU) and one or more graphical compute devices (e.g. a GPU) plus a C-based programming language for writing programs & for executing program for the computer devices. Using OpenAcc a programmer can write task-based programming and data-parallel programming that are use all the resources of the heterogeneous computer system. This will be a �future introduction to programming language� where we cover the ideas behind OpenAcc & other platforms. Thereby providing a pedagogically useful example that experienced heterogeneous computing programmers will need to quickly become productive & efficient OpenAcc programmer�s model. We can also show how these ideas are translated into source code & how they are executed in the given system. We will do this through a series of progressively more challenging examples for heterogeneous computing system.