In a show of strength leading up to ISC the OpenACC standards group today announced its first OpenPOWER implementation, the addition of three new members – University of Illinois, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Stony Brook University – and details of its expanding 2016 training schedule. Michael Wolfe, technical director of OpenACC, also talked about thorny compiler challenges still remaining as the number of processor (all types) cores grows and memory management issues become more complex. Currently in private beta testing and planned for public beta in August, the PGI OpenACC compiler supporting OpenPOWER has made steady progress according to Wolfe, who is also a compiler engineer with PGI (NVIDIA). “It includes the same command line. You can take an application, you copy all the sources, all the make files over, just type make, and it builds on the new system,” said Wolfe. To read more, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/06/13/openacc-adds-support-openpower-touts-growing-traction/