In this video at SC24 in Atlanta, the focus is on OpenACC, an organization dedicated to helping the research and developer community advance science by expanding their accelerated and parallel computing skills.
We spoke with Dr. Sunita Chandrasekaran, associate professor at the University of Delaware Department of Computer and Information Sciences and OpenACC User Group Chair, and with Jack Wells, Director of Higher Education and Research Computing at NVIDIA and President of OpenACC.
In this video Sunita and Jack discuss OpenACC’s mission, which includes three areas of focus: participating in computing ecosystem development, providing training and education on HPC-AI programming models, resources and tools, and developing the OpenACC specification. The organization offers video tutorials, guides, online courses, books and hackathons, among other resources.
OpenACC, whose mission statement is “More Science, Less Programming,” places high value on user feedback, along with fostering community and workforce development.
Jack noted that NVIDIA is a committed founding OpenACC member, offering GPU expertise to support developers and researchers addressing HPC-AI challenges. He discusses interdisciplinary collaboration and the need for democratizing access to AI through such initiatives as the National Science Foundation’s National AI Research Resource Pilot and RaMP (Research and Mentoring for Post-baccalaureates in Biological Sciences) programs.
