Thomas Schwinge
Software engineer, primarily working on GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), in particular adding support for OpenACC/OpenMP (directive-based parallel programming models) with code offloading to Nvidia GPUs (project started in 2013-06), and AMD GPUs. In 2018-09, appointed GCC/OpenACC maintainer, in 2023-07 appointed GCC/nvptx maintainer. Active member of the OpenACC Technical Committee.
Part of the team developing GCC/Rust: a GCC front end for the Rust programming language.
I also worked on glibc, GDB, binutils, etc., and had a brief look into the world of LLVM, but GCC etc. is still keeping me busy.
Employed by BayLibre.
Background in electrical engineering, focus on computer engineering, graduating from the Universität Stuttgart with a Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.-Ing., compare to M.Eng.) degree.
Sessions
An update of the current status of OpenMP, OpenACC and offloading in GCC, including what has been achieved last year. A few highlights and, additionally, an outlook for next years is given of the tasks that are planned or that should be done in the near term.
Discussion of topics related to parallel computing and accelerator offloading in GCC. In particular, related to OpenMP and OpenACC and to offloading to AMD and Nvidia GPUs. But also other topics like additional offloading targets or base-language parallelization features of C, C++, Fortran, or other languages are welcome. Planned topics include completion of OpenMP 5.x and addition of more 6.x features, OpenACC extension, improving performance, but also support for a GPU kernel language (programming at the abstraction level of CUDA/HIP – as proposed for the next OpenMP version).