Monday, December 12, 2011

OpenACC may hint to the future of CUDA at Nvidia

OpenACC may hint to the future of CUDA at Nvidia

An announcement from Nvidia made at the most recent SC11 conference apparently got lost in a wave of supercomputing announcements. However, it's a pretty significant change in Nvidia's strategy on how to approach multi-core computing in the future and worth a note. Together with Cray, PGI and CAPS, Nvidia announced a new parallel programming standard called OpenACC. OpenACC has been published as API that includes a range of compiler directives which describe code additions for C, C++ and Fortran to take advantage of accelerators to speed up code processing in highly data parallel environments.

2DayBlog.com, OpenACC may hint to the future of CUDA at Nvidia

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