SC Conference - Activity Details

Ben Bergen  (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Wednesday,  05:30PM - 07:00PM

Room E145-146

With the number of exotic computing architectures on the rise—not to mention multicore and hybrid platforms, combined with the fact that these “accelerated” solutions might just offer the best bang for the buck, what chance does the average computational scientist have to write portable, sustainable code? Enter OpenCL, a framework expressly designed to address these issues. In this BOF, we will answer the questions, “What is it?”, “How do I use it?”, “How does it work for HPC?”, and “Where can I get it?”. In addition, there will be a lighthearted and lively panel discussion/debate on the direction and potential for this emerging standard.