More GCC Patches To Get OpenMP Offloading To NVIDIA NVPTX Working

[phoronix]

Phoronix: More GCC Patches To Get OpenMP Offloading To NVIDIA NVPTX Working

Fresh patches are available for GCC to get OpenMP offloading to the NVIDIA PTX ISA working for accelerating OpenMP on NVIDIA GPUs with the GNU Compiler Collection...

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[zboson]

I am quite familiar with OpenMP. But I have never used OpenACC. What is the point of using OpenACC if OpenMP supports GPUs as well?

[log0]

I am quite familiar with OpenMP. But I have never used OpenACC. What is the point of using OpenACC if OpenMP supports GPUs as well?

I think the original idea was to extend OpenMP to support GPUs and other accelerators. The result was a separate standard because why not...