Speaker
Dr
Sergei Bastrakov
(HZDR)
Description
Applications in areas such as data analysis, simulation or imaging are
processing ever-increasing amounts of data.
Exploiting parallelism is a must to keep up with these demands.
However, one does not simply write a parallel and performance-portable
code, that runs on various platforms like multi-core CPU of a laptop or
thousands of GPUs on a Top10 compute cluster.
The Computational Radiation Physics group at HZDR is developing a modern
software architecture, that provides various C++ zero-overhead
abstraction components for accelerator programming and data
communication.
Our open-source framework is currently being used in particle physics,
fluid dynamics and image processing. These valuable coding experiences
also help to find optimal component interfaces, as usability and
template meta-programming are rather different worlds.
The poster presents the main modules including Alpaka [1] and gives an
insight to the future work.
[1]
Alpaka - Abstraction Library for Parallel Kernel Acceleration
https://github.com/ComputationalRadiationPhysics/alpaka
Primary authors
Mr
Matthias Werner
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Dr
Michael Bussmann
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
Co-author
Dr
Sergei Bastrakov
(HZDR)
