OpenACC Still Not Loved By Open Compilers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenACC Still Not Loved By Open Compilers

While an open industry standard, the leading open-source compilers still lack support for the OpenACC parallel programming standard...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI0MjM

[mark45]

One needs a site like distrowatch to monitor the cloud of parallel computing solutions cropping up all over.

[curaga]

Indeed. Anyone have made a comparison of them all?

[gamerk2]

As a developer, OpenMP is the most attractive of all the options available right now. Its a single pragma command, and this code changes are minimal. You don't use the GPU (which is another major variable; you can slow processing is the GPU is too weak or if loads are not massively parallel, which you don't want, obviously).

Essentially, if I want more CPU parallization, I use OpenMP. If I also want to use the GPU, I use OpenCL. I fully expect all the other parallel API's to die off fairly quickly.