CAPS and PATHSCALE to collaborate on making HMPP a new open standard
... new evolution in the gpgpu programming model...
Rennes - June 24th
PathScale Inc., an industry leader in delivering high performance AMD64 and Intel64 compilers, today announced its new PathScale ENZO Compiler Suite will support the NVIDIA GPUs using the HMPP directive-based programming model originally developed by CAPS. Today also marks the start to CAPS and PathScale jointly working on advancing the HMPP directives as a new open standard. The new ENZO Compiler Suite is available for testing by selected customers and will be generally available later this summer.
PathScale has been delivering its EKO compilers for Fortran, C, and C++ tailored to meet the needs of customers demanding the highest level of performance from their applications. “Our new ENZO compilers not only bring performance to another level by exploiting the NVIDIA GPU's, but also allows incremental changes without sacrificing maximum performance” according to Christopher Bergström, Chief Technical Officer at PathScale. “By jointly working together with CAPS on making HMPP directives an open standard we make possible a new evolution in the gpgpu programming model that has been long overdue.”
The HMPP directives have been designed and used for more than 2 years by major HPC leaders. As a high level of abstraction for programming GPUs in scientific applications, HMPP preserves customers’ software assets by keeping applications portable. The HMPP directive-based programming model offers a powerful syntax to efficiently offload computations on hardware accelerators and to optimize data movement.
“PathScale’s choice to implement the HMPP directive programming model in their ENZO compiler suite supports CAPS commitment in delivering to users an open standard solution that will secure their investment”, declares François Bodin, Chief Technical Officer at CAPS.
