The Kokkos ecosystem - Sustaining performance portability at the exascale era
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Thrilled to share the Kokkos team’s vision for exascale computing at SC23! Christian and I presented at the DOE Booth, discussing how Kokkos is empowering applications to reach new heights of performance.
Abstract:
We have entered the exascale era of high-performance computing (HPC), and with it comes the challenge of writing software that can achieve high performance on a wide variety of heterogeneous architectures. The Kokkos Ecosystem is a performance portability solution which addresses that challenge through a single source C++ programming model that follows modern software engineering practices. Accompanied by a suite of libraries for fundamental computational algorithms as well as tools for profiling and debugging, Kokkos is a productive framework to write sustainable software. Today Kokkos arguably provides the leading non-vendor provided programming model for HPC exascale applications. Developed and maintained by a multi-institutional team of HPC experts, Kokkos is relied on by scientist and engineers from well over 100 institutions to help them leverage modern HPC systems. This talk will provide an overview of Kokkos and its benefits for performance portability and software sustainability. We will also present the Kokkos’ team vision for a community driven future of the project.