PGI Accelerator goes Beta with support for OpenACC Programming
In order to provide performance portability for applications to high-performance computing (HPC) researchers and developers, the wholly-owned subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, The Portland Group (PGI) has announced availability of a Beta release of the PGI Accelerator Fortran, C and C++ compilers with support for the OpenACC API targeting AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) and discrete Graphics Processing Units (dGPUs).
Douglas Miles, Director of The Portland Group, said, "The OpenACC standard was developed in direct response to the HPC community’s interest for a vendor-neutral, platform-independent, directive-based accelerator programming model. Adding PGI Accelerator support for AMD APUs and GPUs is the latest step in the evolution of OpenACC and compiler technology for heterogeneous parallel computing at PGI."
The OpenACC Application Programming Interface (API) describes a collection of compiler directives to specify loops and regions of code in standard C, C++ and Fortran.
"AMD is very pleased with the beta release of the PGI Accelerator Fortran, C and C++ compilers with support for the OpenACC API that targets AMD APUs and discrete GPUs. OpenACC is being adopted by HPC researchers and programmers as they look for easier ways to take advantage of the benefits of accelerated computing. OpenACC provides a straight forward means for programmers to accelerate their applications using familiar programming techniques," said Margaret Lewis, Director, Server Software Planning at AMD.
The first Beta release of the PGI Accelerator compilers with support for the OpenACC standard on AMD dGPU and APU platforms is available now on a limited basis and the open Beta release is currently scheduled for availability later in 2013.
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