OpenACC Routines Support Coming To GCC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenACC Routines Support Coming To GCC

En route to the mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is support for OpenACC routines...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenACC-Routines-GCC

[nuetzel]

'OpenACC' , the Open Accelerators parallel computing specification backed by NVIDIA, PGI, and others, ...
PGI a subsidiary of..., yes NVIDIA.
When will we see _true_ open heterogeneous computing?

[pipe13]

'OpenACC' , the Open Accelerators parallel computing specification backed by NVIDIA, PGI, and others, ...
PGI a subsidiary of..., yes NVIDIA.
When will we see _true_ open heterogeneous computing?

As soon as we google "gcc hsa support."

[timofonic]

So is this a Nvidia only thing? Useless if it is...

[starshipeleven]

So is this a Nvidia only thing? Useless if it is...

Intel is using their own stuff that is x86, everyone else is with AMD on HSA.
NVIDIA-only-thing confirmed.

[pipe13]

Breaking: AMD and PathScale Join the OpenACC Standards Group: http://www.openacc.org/content/appli...tandards-group

PGI compiler supports AMD Tahiti in addition to Nvidia Tesla: http://www.pgroup.com/resources/accel.htm#targets

Pathscale supports multicore ARM as well as multicore x86: http://www.openacc.org/content/which...-support-today

I'm not commenting on the merits of HSA vis-a-vis OpenACC. But finding out isn't that hard.