New York – March 28, 2024 – Lightning AI today announced the availability of Thunder, a source-to-source compiler for PyTorch designed for training and serving the latest generative AI models across multiple GPUs. Thunder is the culmination of two years of research on the next generation of deep learning compilers, built with support from NVIDIA. […]
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ECP Pushes Cross-Platform Tested Compilers for HPC and Exascale Architectures
June 9, 2021 by
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is working to combine two key technologies, LLVM and continuous integration (CI), to ensure that current and future compilers are stable and performant on high-performance computing (HPC) and exascale computer systems. The proliferation of new machine architectures has made the continuous testing and verification of software (hence the “continuous” in CI) an essential part of US Department of Energy DOE supercomputing. Valentin Clement, a software engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who is part of the team working to include LLVM in the ECP CI testing and verification framework, notes, “We are working to add CI for ECP-relevant architectures. This facilitates….
Compiler Pioneers Aho, Ullman Win ACM’s Turing Award
March 31, 2021 by
Sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize of computing,” the A.M. Turing Award this year will go to Alfred Vaino Aho and Jeffrey David Ullman, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced today. Aho is the Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Columbia University, and Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor Emeritus of Computer […]
Clacc – Open Source OpenACC Compiler and Source Code Translation Project
March 16, 2021 by
By Rob Farber, contributing writer for the Exascale Computing Project Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP) PROTEAS-TUNE project to develop production OpenACC compiler support for Clang and the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project (LLVM). The Clacc project page notes, “OpenACC support in Clang and LLVM will facilitate the programming of GPUs and other accelerators in DOE applications, […]
NERSC, ALCF, Codeplay Partner on SYCL GPU Compiler
March 1, 2021 by
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are working with Codeplay Software to enhance the LLVM SYCL GPU compiler capabilities for Nvidia A100 GPUs. The collaboration is designed to help NERSC and ALCF users, along with the HPC community in general, produce […]
Podcast: How Community Collaboration Drives Compiler Technology at the LLVM Project
March 10, 2020 by
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Hal Finkel of Argonne National Laboratory describes how community collaboration is driving compiler infrastructure at the LLVM project. “LLVM is important to a wide swath of technology professionals. Contributions shaping its development have come from individuals, academia, DOE and other government entities, and industry, including some of the most prominent tech companies in the world, both inside and outside of the traditional high-performance computing space.”
NERSC taps NVIDIA compiler team for Perlmutter Supercomputer
March 22, 2019 by
NERSC has signed a contract with NVIDIA to enhance GPU compiler capabilities for Berkeley Lab’s next-generation Perlmutter supercomputer. “We are excited to work with NVIDIA to enable OpenMP GPU computing using their PGI compilers,” said Nick Wright, the Perlmutter chief architect. “Many NERSC users are already successfully using the OpenMP API to target the manycore architecture of the NERSC Cori supercomputer. This project provides a continuation of our support of OpenMP and offers an attractive method to use the GPUs in the Perlmutter supercomputer. We are confident that our investment in OpenMP will help NERSC users meet their application performance portability goals.”
Video: Hewlett Packard Labs teams with Mentor for LightSuite Photonic Compiler
September 14, 2018 by
“Mentor’s LightSuite Photonic Compiler represents a quantum leap in automating what has up to now been a highly manual, full-custom process that required deep knowledge of photonics as well as electronics,” said Joe Sawicki, vice president and general manager of the Design-to-Silicon Division at Mentor, a Siemens business. “With the new LightSuite Photonic Compiler, Mentor is enabling more companies to push the envelope in creating integrated photonic designs.”
Intel® Compilers Overview: Scalable Performance for Intel® Processors
September 12, 2018 by
Intel Compilers for C/C++ and Fortran empower developers to derive the greatest performance from applications and hardware. In this video, Igor Vorobtsov discusses nuances of Intel compiler features which enable high-level optimization, auto-parallelization, auto-vectorization, dynamic profile guided optimization, detailed optimization reports, inter-procedural optimization (IPO), and much more.
NVIDIA Releases PGI 2018 Compilers and Tools
March 15, 2018 by
Today NVIDIA announced the availability of PGI 2018. “PGI is the default compiler on many of the world’s fastest computers including the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. PGI production-quality compilers are for scientists and engineers using computing systems ranging from workstations to the fastest GPU-powered supercomputers.”
