Lecture 27

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Use OpenACC to enable GPU acceleration of code.

Reading assignment

1. Lec27 example code.
2. UIUC Lecture 30.
3. Chapter 15 of text.
4. OpenACC specifications (from www.openacc.org).
5. Keeneland OpenACC documentation: keeneland.gatech.edu/node/107.

Exercises and review questions

• Exercises and review questions on current lecture's material
  1. Use OpenACC, instead of CUDA, to accelerate any of your previous assignment codes and run it on Keeneland. Compare its performance against your CUDA implementation. Report your results in the discussion forum.

• Preparation for the next lecture
  1. Create your project presentation.

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Last modified: 17 Apr 2013