Everything about OpenACC

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: OpenACCA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Portable Acceleration of Materials Modeling Software: CASTEP, GPUs, and OpenACCInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Programming Massively Parallel ProcessorsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: OpenACC. An open database of car-following experiments to study the properties of commercial ACC systemsCited 255 times
5. Go sideways: OpenCLA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: The Portland GroupA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• OpenACC. An open database of car-following experiments to study the properties of commercial ACC systems

  Michail Makridis, Konstantinos Mattas, Aikaterini Anesiadou · 2021 · Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies · 255 citations

• Accelerated lattice Boltzmann simulation using GPU and OpenACC with data management

  A. Xu, L. Shi, T.S. Zhao · 2017 · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 154 citations

• Multi-GPU thermal lattice Boltzmann simulations using OpenACC and MPI

  Ao Xu, Bo-Tao Li · 2023 · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 66 citations

• Particle-resolved thermal lattice Boltzmann simulation using OpenACC on multi-GPUs

  Ao Xu, Bo-Tao Li · 2024 · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer · 52 citations

• Practical parallelization of scientific applications with OpenMP, OpenACC and MPI

  Marco Aldinucci, Valentina Cesare, Iacopo Colonnelli · 2021 · Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing · 42 citations

• Performance and portability of accelerated lattice Boltzmann applications with OpenACC

  Enrico Calore, Alessandro Gabbana, Jiri Kraus · 2016 · Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience · 35 citations

• A case study of CUDA FORTRAN and OpenACC for an atmospheric climate kernel

  Matthew Norman, Jeffrey Larkin, Aaron Vose · 2015 · Journal of Computational Science · 35 citations

• Performance analysis of CUDA, OpenACC and OpenMP programming models on TESLA V100 GPU

  Mikhail Khalilov, Alexey Timoveev · 2021 · Journal of Physics: Conference Series · 33 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Portable Acceleration of Materials Modeling Software: CASTEP, GPUs, and OpenACC

  Matthew Smith, Arjen Tamerus, Phil Hasnip · 2022 · Computing in Science & Engineering · 20 citations

• Accelerating an iterative eigensolver for nuclear structure configuration interaction calculations on GPUs using OpenACC

  Pieter Maris, Chao Yang, Dossay Oryspayev · 2022 · Journal of Computational Science · 17 citations

• Optimizing UniFrac with OpenACC Yields Greater Than One Thousand Times Speed Increase

  Igor Sfiligoi, George Armstrong, Antonio Gonzalez · 2022 · mSystems · 11 citations

• Accelerated numerical modeling of shallow water flows with MPI, OpenACC, and GPUs

  Ayhan H. Saleem, Matthew R. Norman · 2024 · Environmental Modelling & Software · 11 citations

• OpenACC Acceleration of an Agent-Based Biological Simulation Framework

  Matt Stack, Paul Macklin, Robert Searles · 2022 · Computing in Science & Engineering · 8 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Programming Massively Parallel ProcessorsDavid Kirk, Wen-Mei W. Hwu · 2010
• OpenACC for ProgrammersSunita Chandrasekaran, Guido Juckeland · 2017
• 📕OpenACC ProgrammingRob Farber · 2016
• 📕Parallel Programming with OpenACCRob Farber · 2016

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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