Second Annual Directives and Tools for Accelerators Workshop A Seismic Programming Shift

High-level, directive-based programming models have been rapidly gaining traction as a portable, productive means to develop application code for multicore platforms and accelerators. Due to their usability and portability, programming APIs such as OpenMP and OpenACC, are increasingly being adopted as an alternative to lower-level APIs such as CUDA and OpenCL. This workshop will provide a forum for HPC application developers and technical managers in particular within the Oil and Gas industry, to learn more about these high-level, directive-based programming strategies and their usage to program accelerators, such as NVIDIA/AMD GPUs and coprocessors such as Intel’s Xeon Phi.

Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center of Tokyo Institute of Technology (GSIC) and Dr. Luiz De Rose, Senior Principal Engineer and the Programming Environments Director at Cray will be giving the morning and afternoon Keynotes. Duncan Poole, President of OpenACC will be moderating a panel session that will conclude the day’s workshop.