- Venue: Haifa, ISRAEL
- Event date: September 15th, 2016
- Speakers: Xavier Martorell & Xavier Teruel
Contents
This tutorial will show the OmpSs Programming Model. It will be based on both teaching and laboratory sessions. OmpSs is a programming model developed at BSC that we use as a forerunner for OpenMP. Like OpenMP, it is based on compiler directives. It is the base platform where we have developed OpenMP tasking, support for dependences, priorities, task reductions, and it also includes support for heterogeneous devices.
We will introduce the OmpSs basic concepts related to task-based parallelism for the SMP cores and then quickly move to the support for heterogeneous devices. OmpSs allows to leverage existing OpenCL and CUDA kernels without the burden to have to deal with data copies to/from the devices. Data copies are just triggered automatically by the OmpSs runtime, based on the task dependence annotations.
OmpSs is currently being extended for FPGA devices, in the context of the AXIOM European Project. We will also show how the same directives are being used to outline code that can be compiled and run on FPGA devices.
The tutorial will include two laboratory sessions. We will provide student accounts to attendees in our Minotauro machine (Intel-based with NVidia GPUs), and several exercises will be provided to be completed online (cholesky, matrix multiplication, nbody, 3d-stencil, merge-sort, histogram…), and learn better the details of the OmpSs support for both the SMP and heterogeneous architectures.
Agenda
- Session 1. Introduction to OmpSs (8.00 - 10:00)
- OmpSs tasking (fundamentals of OmpSs)
- Task dependences (execution model)
- Additional concurrent, commutative clauses
- Development environment: Mercurium compiler and Nanos++
- Hands-on on simple benchmarks: how to compile and execute applications
- Session 2. OmpSs support for heterogeneous architectures (10:30 - 12:15)
- OmpSs target extensions
- Automatic data transfers, software cache
- Leveraging CUDA and OpenCL kernels
- Session 3. Hands-on (13:50 - 15:35)
- Parallelizing applications on heterogeneous architectures with OmpSs
- Cholesky, matrix multiplication, nbody, 3d-stencil, merge-sort, histogram…
- Session 4. FPGA support in OmpSs (15:50 - 17:00)
- Exploiting parallelism on FPGA devices
- Integrating the development environment with support for FPGAs