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SUMMARY:Panel: Convergence, Divergence, or New Approaches? - The Future of
  Software-Based Abstractions for Heterogeneous Supercomputing
DESCRIPTION:Workshop\n\nPanel: Convergence, Divergence, or New Approaches?
  - The Future of Software-Based Abstractions for Heterogeneous Supercomput
 ing\n\nFoertter, Hammond, Deslippe, Trott, Wolfe...\n\nWith an ongoing shi
 ft towards accelerator-based architectures given the promise of improved p
 erformance per watt, the complexity of parallelizing and tuning applicatio
 ns is also increasing. Today's high-performance computing (HPC) developers
  face a serious dilemma to decide on processor architecture and parallel p
 rogramming paradigm.\n\nSoftware-based abstractions for accelerators give 
 hope to lift this burden but also leave the developers spoilt for choice -
  from open standards over Domain-specific languages (DSLs) to proprietary 
 approaches, and from open-source to closed-source solutions. The uncertain
 ty surrounding the usability, portability, and interoperability of these a
 bstractions in the future makes it unsettling for the developers. It is bu
 t imperative that we try and resolve these shortcomings for their greater 
 adoption.\n\nThis panel hopes to work towards this resolution by bringing 
 together standards committee, supporters, and users of these abstractions,
  e.g., from OpenACC, OpenMP, Kokkos or SYCL. The panelists will share thei
 r insights on the future of these abstractions - Will they converge, diver
 ge, or will there be new approaches that would be needed? What makes a goo
 d accelerator programming model? Is there a measure for this "goodness"? T
 he audience is also encouraged to challenge the panelists with their quest
 ions or share their insights.\n\nTag: Workshop Reg Pass, Accelerators, Par
 allel Application Frameworks, Parallel Programming Languages, Libraries, a
 nd Models, Scientific Computing, Software Engineering\n\nRegistration Cate
 gory: Workshop Reg Pass, Accelerators, Parallel Application Frameworks, Pa
 rallel Programming Languages, Libraries, and Models, Scientific Computing,
  Software Engineering
URL:https://sc19.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=pec281&sess=sess127
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