Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart: BOOTCAMP: N-Ways to GPU Programming

Prerequisites and content levels

Prerequisites

Basic experience with C/C++ or Fortran. No GPU programming knowledge is required.

Content levels

Beginners level: 9 hours

Learn more about course curricula and content levels.

Instructors

Main lecturers: Paul Graham (NVIDIA)

Teaching Assistants:

Claudia Blaas-Schenner, Siegfried Höfinger, Moritz Siegel, Soner Steiner, Ivan Vialov (VSC Vienna)
Tobias Haas, Lorenzo Zanon, Lucienne Dettki, Maksym Deliyergiyev (HLRS)
Jan-Oliver Mirus, Luis Cifuentes, Kaveh Haghighi-Mood, Jayesh Badwaik (JSC)
Volker Weinberg (LRZ)
Qiang Li, Yonglei Wang (ENCCS/LiU)

Agenda

- preliminary -

All times in CEST:

Day 0 (Tue, Apr 2) : Cluster Dry Run

11:00 - 12:00 Cluster Dry Run Session

Day 1 (Wed, Apr 3): Introduction

09:00 - 09:05 Welcome (Moderator)
09:05 - 09:30 Introduction to GPU computing (Lecture)
09:30 - 10:00 Introduction to Nsight Systems (Lecture and Read only Lab)
10:30 - 11:00 Accelerating Standard C++ and Fortran with GPUs (Lecture and Lab)
11:00 - 11:30 Wrap Up and QA

Day 2 (Thu, Apr 4): Hands-on labs

09:00 - 10:30 Directive Based Programming with OpenACC on GPU (Lecture and Lab)
10:30 - 12:30 CUDA C/Fortran Programming (Lecture and Lab)
12:30 - 12:45 Description of code challenge
12:45 - 13:00 Wrap up and QA

Day 3 (Fri, Apr 5): Challenge: Hands-on

09:00 - 12:00 Code Challenge (in the break-out rooms)
09:00 - 09:30 Targeting GPUs from Python
12:00 - 12:30 QA about Code Challenge
12:30 - 13:00 Project Discussion (Optional)

Hands-on sessions

Attendees will be given access to a GPU cluster for the duration of the Bootcamp.

The code is publicly available on github.

Registration closes on February 20, 2024 at 23:55.

Fees

Students without Master's degree or equivalent. Participants from EU or EuroCC countries only: 0 EUR
PhD students or employees at a German university or public research institute: 0 EUR
PhD students or employees at a university or public research institute in an EU or EuroCC country other than Germany: 0 EUR.
Other participants, e.g., from industry, other public service providers, or government. Participants from EU or EuroCC countries only: 0 EUR

Our course fee includes coffee breaks (in classroom courses only).

For lists of EU and EuroCC countries have a look at the Horizon Europe and EuroCC website.

Only participants from institutions belonging to these countries can take part in this course.

Contact

Maksym Deliyergiyev phone 0711 685 87261, maksym.deliyergiyev(at)hlrs.de

HLRS Training Collaborations in HPC

HLRS is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), together with JSC in Jülich and LRZ in Garching near Munich. EuroCC@GCS is the German National Competence Centre (NCC) for High-Performance Computing. HLRS is also a member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC.

This course is provided within the framework of EuroCC2.

Official course URL(s)

http://www.hlrs.de/training/2024/BC-GPU-NV and course website at Open Hackathons.

Further courses

See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.