Dawn-CC: Automatically Adding OpenACC/OpenMP Directives To Programs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Dawn-CC: Automatically Adding OpenACC/OpenMP Directives To Programs

The DawnCC project is out of the UFMG University and aims to provide automatic parallelization of code for mobile devices and other supported software/hardware of OpenACC and OpenMP...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dawn-Auto-Add-OpenMP-OpenACC

[RussianNeuroMancer]

So one could use it to add OpenMP directives, compile with HCC, run on supported hardware with ROCR Runtime, and be golden?

[nevion]

Well, depends on what you mean. You'll make poor use of the memory hierarchy. I really wouldn't even bother with such attempts of using OpenMP but they may address this with it I suppose. OpenCL FTW, specifically the quasi-JIT win.