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Early evaluation of directive-based GPU programming models for productive exascale computing

Seyong Lee, Jeffrey S. Vetter
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC’12), 2012

@inproceedings{lee2012early,

   title={Early evaluation of directive-based GPU programming models for productive exascale computing},

   author={Lee, S. and Vetter, J.S.},

   booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis},

   pages={23},

   year={2012},

   organization={IEEE Computer Society Press}

}

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Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-based parallel computer architectures have shown increased popularity as a building block for high performance computing, and possibly for future Exascale computing. However, their programming complexity remains as a major hurdle for their widespread adoption. To provide better abstractions for programming GPU architectures, researchers and vendors have proposed several directive-based GPU programming models. These directive-based models provide different levels of abstraction, and required different levels of programming effort to port and optimize applications. Understanding these differences among these new models provides valuable insights on their applicability and performance potential. In this paper, we evaluate existing directive-based models by porting thirteen application kernels from various scientific domains to use CUDA GPUs, which, in turn, allows us to identify important issues in the functionality, scalability, tunability, and debuggability of the existing models. Our evaluation shows that directive-based models can achieve reasonable performance, compared to hand-written GPU codes.
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