Prof. Chandrasekaran gave an HPC featured talk at the yearly GPU Technology Conference (GTC), San Jose, CA, 2018 on Adapting Minisweep, a Proxy Application, on Heterogeneous Systems Using OpenACC Directives based on work done by her PhD student Robert Searles. This is work in collaboration with Dr. Oscar Hernandez and Dr. Wayne Joubert at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The talk highlighted programming challenges and its corresponding solutions using OpenACC, for porting a wavefront based miniapplication for Denovo, which is a production code for nuclear reactor modeling.
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