OpenMPC: extended OpenMP for efficient programming and tuning on GPUs

  • Authors:
  • Seyong Lee;Rudolf Eigenmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA;School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 47907, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

General-purpose graphics processing units GPGPUs provide inexpensive, high performance platforms for compute-intensive applications. However, their programming complexity poses a significant challenge to developers. Even though the compute unified device architecture CUDA programming model offers better abstraction, developing efficient GPGPU code is still complex and error-prone. This paper proposes a directive-based, high-level programming model, called OpenMPC, which addresses both programmability and tunability issues on GPGPUs. We have developed a fully automatic compilation and user-assisted tuning system supporting OpenMPC. In addition to a range of compiler transformations and optimisations, the system includes tuning capabilities for generating, pruning, and navigating the search space of compilation variants. Evaluation using 14 applications shows that our system achieves 75% of the performance of the hand-coded CUDA programmes 92% if excluding one exceptional case.