Presentation
Advanced OpenMP: Host Performance and 5.0 Features
Event Type
Tutorial
TUT
Advanced
Parallel Programming Languages, Libraries, and Models
TimeMonday, 18 November 20198:30am - 5pm
Location303
DescriptionWith the increasing prevalence of multicore processors, shared-memory programming models are essential. OpenMP is a popular, portable, widely supported, and easy-to-use shared-memory model. Developers usually find OpenMP easy to learn. However, they are often disappointed with the performance and scalability of the resulting code. This disappointment stems not from shortcomings of OpenMP but rather with the lack of depth with which it is employed. Our “Advanced OpenMP Programming” tutorial addresses this critical need by exploring the implications of possible OpenMP parallelization strategies, both in terms of correctness and performance.
We assume attendees understand basic parallelization concepts and know the fundamentals of OpenMP. We focus on performance aspects, such as data and thread locality on NUMA architectures, false sharing, and exploitation of vector units. All topics are accompanied with extensive case studies and we discuss the corresponding language features in-depth. Based on the feedback from previous years, we have taken out the part on directives for attached compute accelerators, to focus solely on performance programming for multi-core architectures. Throughout all topics, we present the recent additions of OpenMP 5.0.
We assume attendees understand basic parallelization concepts and know the fundamentals of OpenMP. We focus on performance aspects, such as data and thread locality on NUMA architectures, false sharing, and exploitation of vector units. All topics are accompanied with extensive case studies and we discuss the corresponding language features in-depth. Based on the feedback from previous years, we have taken out the part on directives for attached compute accelerators, to focus solely on performance programming for multi-core architectures. Throughout all topics, we present the recent additions of OpenMP 5.0.
