Performance evaluation of OpenMP's target construct on GPUs - exploring compiler optimisations
by Akihiro Hayashi; Jun Shirako; Etorre Tiotto; Robert Ho; Vivek Sarkar
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), Vol. 13, No. 1, 2019

Abstract: OpenMP is a directive-based shared memory parallel programming model and has been widely used for many years. From OpenMP 4.0 onwards, GPU platforms are supported by extending OpenMP's high-level parallel abstractions with accelerator programming. This extension allows programmers to write GPU programs in standard C/C++ or Fortran languages, without exposing too many details of GPU architectures. However, such high-level programming models generally impose additional program optimisations on compilers and runtime systems. Otherwise, OpenMP programs could be slower than fully hand-tuned and even naive implementations with low-level programming models like CUDA. To study potential performance improvements by compiling and optimising high-level programs for GPU execution, in this paper, we: 1) evaluate a set of OpenMP benchmarks on two NVIDIA Tesla GPUs (K80 and P100); 2) conduct a comparable performance analysis among hand-written CUDA and automatically-generated GPU programs by the IBM XL and clang/LLVM compilers.

Online publication date: Mon, 17-Dec-2018

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