HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart: AMD GPU Training

Prerequisites and content levels

Prerequisites

Some knowledge in GPU programming, e.g., CUDA.

See also the suggested prereading below (resources and public videos).

Content levels

Advanced: 7 hours

Learn more about course curricula and content levels.

Resources

ROCm platform: with instructions for installing from Debian/CentOS/RHEL binary repositories. It also has links to source repositories for all components, including HIP.
HIP porting guide
ROCm/HIP libraries
ROC-profiler: Collects application traces and performance counters. The trace timeline can be visualized with chrome://tracing .
AMD GPU ISA docs and more

Public videos

Instructors

Dominic E. Charrier (AMD), Adil Lashab (AMD), Mazda Sabony (AMD)

Agenda

Program of day 1

09:45 - 10:00 Login and Microsoft Teams setup

10:00 - 13:00 Training

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:00 Training

The sessions will be intertwined with short 10-15 minutes breaks.

Topics

AMD GPU
- GCN/CDNA Overview
- Memory Hierarchy
- HIP GPU Compute Terminology
- Compute Units
HIP
- Introduction to HIP
- Core HIP API
- Memory Management in HIP
- Asynchronous Computing with HIP
- Tips & Tricks
ROCm
- Introduction to ROCm
- GPUFORT: Porting CUDA & OpenACC codes to HIP
- ROCm Libraries
- Multi-GPU RCCL/MPI with ROCm

Program of day 2

10:00 - 14:00 Hands-on sessions

Topics of the hands-on sessions

ROCm Tools introduction
CUDA-To-HIP Example code porting
OpenACC2HIP Example code porting

Registration information

The course is full, registration is closed.

Fees

This course is free of charge.

PRACE PATC and bwHPC-C5

HLRS is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is one of the six PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs) that started in Feb. 2012.
HLRS is also member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC-C5.
This course is not part of the PATC curriculum and is not sponsored by the PATC program.

EXCELLERAT

This workshop is part of the collaboration between AMD and the Horizon-2020 Centre of Excellence EXCELLERAT. AMD is an EXCELLERAT Interest Group. See also the EXCELLERAT Service Portal for more information.

Contact

Rolf Rabenseifner phone 0711 685 65530, rabenseifner(at)hlrs.de
Tobias Haas phone 0711 685 87223, tobias.haas(at)hlrs.de
Khatuna Kakhiani phone 0711 685 65796, kakhiani(at)hlrs.de
Lorenzo Zanon phone 0711 685 63824, zanon(at)hlrs.de

Official course URL

http://www.hlrs.de/training/2021/AMD3

Further courses

http://www.hlrs.de/training/ and http://www.hlrs.de/training/overview/

High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

AMD GPU Training

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