Second Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD15)  @ SC15

Directive based programming models offer scientific applications a path onto HPC platforms without undue loss of portability or programmer productivity. Using directives, application developers can port their codes to the accelerators incrementally while minimizing code changes. Challenges remain because the directives models need to support a rapidly evolving array of hardware with diverse memory subsystems, which may or may not be unitied. The programming model will need to adapt to such developments, make improvements to raise its performance portability that will make accelerators as first-class systems for HPC. Such improvements are being continuously discussed with the standards committees such as OpenMP and OpenACC. This workshop airs to capture the assessment of the improved feature set, their implementation and experiences with their deployment in HPC applications. The workshop aims at bringing together the user and tools community to share their knowledge and experiences of using directives to program accelerators,
An NVIDIA Quadro M6000 will be awarded to the principal author of the Best Paper submitted, as determined by the Program Chairs.
The OpenACC Toolkit, including a free PGI Accelerator Compiler for academics, is available for those who need programming tools.

Important Dates
Extended to: August 28th, 2015 (Midnight 11:59 Pacific Time Zone)
Author notification: September 30th, 2015
Camera Ready papers due: October 7th, 2015