NVIDIA Looking To Add OpenACC 3.3 Support To Upstream LLVM Clang

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NVIDIA Looking To Add OpenACC 3.3 Support To Upstream LLVM Clang

29 October 2023, 08:50 AM

Phoronix: NVIDIA Looking To Add OpenACC 3.3 Support To Upstream LLVM Clang

A NVIDIA compiler engineer last week laid out the company's plans for implementing OpenACC 3.3 offloading support within the LLVM Clang compiler...

NVIDIA Looking To Add OpenACC 3.3 Support To Upstream LLVM Clang - Phoronix

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29 October 2023, 11:39 AM

The problem with OpenACC is that It's used mostly by Fortran users to offload to CUDA GPUs. It's rarely used by C/C++ users.
It was developed around Nvidia GPU, Now Nvidia wants to push its extension (claiming to be standard) on the community.
WIth OpenMP>5.0 I don't think OpenACC is needed anymore. Nvidia should instead invests on improving OpenMP/offload support to their GPUs.
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