https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817509006
Performance Portability Strategies for Grid C++ Expression Templates
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Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
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NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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Computational Science Initiative, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
* Speaker, e-mail: mlin@bnl.gov
Published online: 26 March 2018
One of the key requirements for the Lattice QCD Application Development as part of the US Exascale Computing Project is performance portability across multiple architectures. Using the Grid C++ expression template as a starting point, we report on the progress made with regards to the Grid GPU offloading strategies. We present both the successes and issues encountered in using CUDA, OpenACC and Just-In-Time compilation. Experimentation and performance on GPUs with a SU(3)×SU(3) streaming test will be reported. We will also report on the challenges of using current OpenMP 4.x for GPU offloading in the same code.
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