Last Friday we had a group meeting with João Paulo Navarro from NVIDIA. João Paulo gave an OpenACC tutorial to the group, demonstrating how easy it is to accelerate scientific codes on GPUs. With just two lines of code (yes, I said two lines), we made a partial differential equation solver run almost 10x faster on a GPU! It is truly impressive.

We have great plans ahead, with some group projects where we anticipate huge speedups using GPUs. Stay tuned!

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The Black Hole Group after the OpenACC training with J. P. Navarro (NVIDIA; sitting at the rightmost side).

Published by rodrigo

Professor of Astrophysics, Universidade de Sao Paulo

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