OpenMP GPU Offloading

Content

Over the past decade or more, most of the software that uses GPGPUs has been developed in CUDA since only NVIDIA provided such hardware.

However, currently, at least three vendors provide GPU accelerators, AMD, Intel and NVIDIA. This implies that you need a vendor-agnostic programming model to use GPUs. OpenMPis such a model. It has long been used for shared-memory parallelism, but it has been extended to support offloading to accelerators.

This training will show you how to use OpenMP to offload computations to GPUs.

Learning objectives

When you complete this training, you will