Oct. 25, 2024
2024 Princeton Open Hackathon

This year's Princeton Open Hackathon hosted 11 diverse research teams from academic institutions across North American, supported by 24 research computing mentors--from Princeton, accelerated computing pioneer NVIDIA, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Coming together in-person and virtually, the teams explored the potential of high-performance computing and AI to help reveal mysteries of the universe, the planet, and the human body.

Oct. 1, 2024
OpenACC and Open Hackathons Monthly Updates: September 2024

Stay up-to-date on the latest news, research, and resources: This month's edition covers the 2024 Open Accelerated Computing (OAC) Summit call for speakers, SC24, a word from an experienced mentor, and more!

 
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Sep. 17, 2024

Last week the initial AMD Zen 5 "znver5" enablement for LLVM/Clang was posted by an AMD compiler engineer. That code has since undergone review and merged for LLVM 20 Git and yesterday then back-ported for LLVM 19.

Sep. 16, 2024

While having the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server in the lab for AmpereOne benchmarking with the flagship AmpereOne A192-32X processor, I took the opportunity to run some fresh GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks on AArch64. Here are those results for that healthy competition between these open-source C/C++ compilers on AmpereOne cores.