OpenACC for Programmers: Concepts and Strategies

Author:   Sunita Chandrasekaran ,  Guido Juckeland
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
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9780134694283


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   09 May 2018
Format:   Paperback
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The book provides a detailed overview of a parallel programming approach for massively parallel processors, OpenACC. The book introduces individual feature sets of OpenACC, with exercises and case studies showcasing the usage of the language constructs and also offers valuable insights into writing an efficient OpenACC program. It also explains how OpenACC language constructs are translated in order to achieve application performance. Chapters on parallelization, optimization strategies and best programming practices are also included.

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Author:   Sunita Chandrasekaran ,  Guido Juckeland
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Addison Wesley
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.542kg
ISBN:  

9780134694283


ISBN 10:   0134694287
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   09 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. OpenACC specification simplified 3. Loop Level Parallelism 4. Programming Tools for OpenACC 5. Creating first OpenACC Program 6. How does OpenACC work under the hood? 7. Best Programming Practices                          8. Challenges of OpenACC Performance Portability – A comprehensive study 9. Additional Approaches to Parallel Programming 10. Advanced OpenACC features 11. OpenACC and interoperability 12. Innovative research ideas using OpenACC

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Sunita Chandrasekaran is assistant professor in the Computer and Information Sciences Department at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include exploring the suitability of high-level programming models and runtime systems for HPC and embedded platforms, and migrating scientific applications to heterogeneous computing systems. Dr. Chandrasekaran was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Houston and holds a Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is a member of OpenACC, OpenMP, MCA and SPEC HPG. She has served on the program committees of various conferences and workshops including SC, ISC, ICPP, CCGrid, Cluster, and PACT, and has co-chaired parallel programming workshops co-located with SC, ISC, IPDPS, and SIAM. Guido Juckeland is head of the Computational Science Group, Department for Information Services and Computing, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, and coordinates the work of the GPU Center of Excellence at Dresden. He and also represents HZDR at the SPEC High Performance Group and OpenACC committee. He received his Ph.D. from Technische Universität Dresden for his work on performance analysis for hardware accelerators. He was a Gordon Bell Award Finalist in 2013. Previously he worked as the IT-architect and post-doctoral researcher for the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at TU Dresden, Germany. He has served on the program committees of various conferences and workshops, including ISC, EuroPar, CCGrid, ASHES, P^3MA, PMBS, WACCPD, and PACT, and has co-chaired parallel programming workshops co-located with SC.

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