Stay up-to-date on the latest news, research, and resources: This month's edition covers 2024 predictions across the HPC and AI industry, NSF's National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot, the role of compilers in scientific computing, on-demand and upcoming webinars, and more!
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The GCC 14.1 stable compiler release due out in the coming months will now have initial working support for both AMD RDNA2 (GFX10.3) and RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics processors. This is intended for OpenMP and OpenACC offloading to the GPUs.
Here's a fresh look at the GCC vs. Clang C/C++ compiler performance of various resulting application binaries tested on x86_64. GCC 13 vs. Clang 17 were tested as what's readily available on Ubuntu 23.10 Linux plus a look ahead in using the latest GCC 14 and LLVM Clang 18 development snapshots as of this week.
From the sky to the sea, and even inside our bodies, a simulator from Georgia Tech is helping us better understand aerodynamic fluid flows. And thanks to Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer, the simulator is even better.
Spencer Bryngelson’s research group manages the Multi-Component Flow Code (MFC) software package. His group was one of ten teams selected by Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) to optimize their simulator in a recent hackathon.