Message from the Workshop Chair

Users and developers of scientific and engineering applications target a wide range of diverse computing platforms: from laptops and workstations, to clusters with homogeneous or heterogeneous node architectures, to the largest and most powerful supercomputers on the planet. This diversity presents the high performance computing (HPC) community with the challenge of developing software using techniques that enable software portability without unduly compromising performance or significantly impacting productivity. Although there have been some partial successes in addressing this challenge, much work remains before the community can truly claim to have productive performance portability techniques (P3).