DPS921/OpenACC vs OpenMP Comparison
Project Overview
The idea of this project is to introduce OpenACC as a parallel processing library, compare how parallelization is done in different libraries, and identify benefits of using each of the libraries. According to description of both libraries, OpenACC does parallelization more automatically whereas OpenMP allows developers to manually set regions to parallelize and assign to threads. The deliverable of this project would be a introduction to OpenACC along with performance comparison between OpenMP and OpenACC, and a discussion on usage of each one.
Group Members
1. Ruiqi Yu
2. Hanlin Li
3. Le Minh Pham
Progress
OpenACC
What is OpenACC
OpenAcc (Open Accelerators) is a programming standard for parallel computing on accelerators such as GPUs, mainly targets Nvidia GPUs. OpenACC is designed to simplify GPU programming, unlike CUDA and OpenCL where you need to write your programs in a different way to achieve GPU acceleration, OpenACC takes a similar approach as OpenMP, which is inserting directives into the code to offload computation onto GPUs and parallelize the code at CUDA core level. It is possible for programmers to create efficient parallel OpenACC code with only minor changes to a serial CPU code.
Example
GPU offloading
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Installation
Originally, OpenACC compilation is supported by the PGI compiler which requires subscription, there has been new options in recent years.
Nvidia HPC SDK
Evolved from PGI Compiler community edition
GCC
Latest GCC version, GCC 10 has support to OpenACC 2.6
OpenMP vs OpenACC
OpenMP GPU offloading
OpenMP started support of offloading to accelerators starting OpenMP 4.0 using `target` constructs