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Many application developers need code that runs efficiently on multiple architectures, but cannot afford to maintain architecturally specific codes. With the addition of target directives to support offload accelerators, OpenMP now has the machinery to support performance portable code development. In this paper, we describe application ports of Kripke, Cardioid, and LULESH to OpenMP 4.5 and discuss our successes and failures. Challenges encountered include how OpenMP interacts with C++ including classes with virtual methods and lambda functions. Also, the lack of deep copy support in OpenMP increased code complexity. Finally, GPUs inability to handle virtual function calls required code restructuring. Despite these challenges we demonstrate OpenMP obtains performance within 10 % of hand written CUDA for memory bandwidth bound kernels in LULESH. In addition, we show with a minor change to the OpenMP standard that register usage for OpenMP code can be reduced by up to 10 %.
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firstprivate: Specifies that each thread should have its own instance of a variable, and that the variable should be initialized with the value of the variable, because it exists before the parallel construct.
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Karlin, I. et al. (2016). Early Experiences Porting Three Applications to OpenMP 4.5. In: Maruyama, N., de Supinski, B., Wahib, M. (eds) OpenMP: Memory, Devices, and Tasks. IWOMP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9903. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45550-1_20
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