[ONLINE] N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp

Apr 8, 2025, 8:45 AM → Apr 9, 2025, 12:30 PM Europe/Prague

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The N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp covers the basics of GPU programming and provides an overview of different methods for porting scientific applications to GPUs using NVIDIA CUDA, OpenACC and OpenMP offloading, and standard languages.

Throughout the bootcamp, attendees with teaching assistants on hand will explore multile GPU programming models, learn how to analyze GPU-enabled applications using NVIDIA Nsight Systems, and participate in hands-on activities to apply these learned skills to real-world problems.

This bootcamp, which will be hosted virtually for one and a half days on April 8–9, is co-organized by the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (IT4I), High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), University of Donja Gorica (UDG), Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (Cyfronet), Linköping University (LiU), Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), HPC Vega at IZUM (IZUM), OpenACC organization, and NVIDIA for EuroCC Austria, EuroCC Czechia, EuroCC@GCS, EuroCC Montenegro, EuroCC Poland, EuroCC Sweden, and EuroCC Slovenia, all National Competence Centres for High-Performance Computing.

Please ensure you meet all prerequisites / eligibility before you apply.

Important dates

• 10 March 2025 – Application Deadline
• 24 March 2025 – Notification about Acceptance
• 07 April 2025, 14:00 – 15:00 (CEST) – Cluster Dry Run
• 08 April 2025, 09:00 – 16:00 (CEST) – Day 1
• 09 April 2025, 09:00 – 12:30 (CEST) – Day 2

Agenda & Content

See Agenda & Content in the left menu for a detailed timetable and course content.

Registration

The registration form is available at https://events.vsc.ac.at/event/179/registrations/176/ for this training event is handled by EuroCC Austria.

Please note that for this event the application deadline is 10 March 2025. You will be informed until 24 March 2025 about your acceptance for the bootcamp.

The registration might close even before the deadline if the number of registrations has reached its maximum (and will open again if there are cancellations).

Please register with your official email address to prove your affiliation.

You will get an automatic confirmation via email (subject starting with "[Indico] Registration"); please check your Spam/Junk folders.

Following your successful registration, you will receive further information approximately 1 week before the course.

Content Level

Content level: Basic = (100%) + Intermediate = (0%) + Advanced = (0%)

Language

English

Entry level

Basic – no prior GPU programming knowledge is required

Prerequisites

Basic experience with C/C++ or Fortran

Target audience

Course for academia, industry, and public administration.

Hands-on labs

Attendees will be given access to an A100 GPU on one of the supercomputers of the organizers.

Lecturers

Event Moderator:  Claudia Blaas-Schenner (VSC & EuroCC Austria)

Instructor: Paul Graham (NVIDIA)

Teaching assistants and cluster support from the participating HPC centres:

Organizers

This course is jointly organized by the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (IT4I), High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), University of Donja Gorica (UDG), Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (Cyfronet), Linköping University (LiU), Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), HPC Vega at IZUM (IZUM), OpenACC organization, and NVIDIA for EuroCC Austria, EuroCC Czechia, EuroCC@GCS, EuroCC Montenegro, EuroCC Poland, EuroCC Sweden, and EuroCC Slovenia, all National Competence Centres for High-Performance Computing.

Acknowledgements

This course is partially funded by the EuroCC 2 project.

This project has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101101903. The JU receives support from the Digital Europe Programme and Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Norway, Türkiye, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia. This project has received funding from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

This course was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic through the e-INFRA CZ (ID:90254).

Tuesday, April 8

Join in

Welcome to the EuroCC 2 Bootcamp (Moderator)

Introduction to GPU Computing (Lecture)

Introduction to Nsight Systems (Lecture and Read-Only Lab)

Accelerating Standard C++ and Fortran with GPUs (Lecture and Lab)

Break

Directive Based Programming with OpenACC or OpenMP on GPU (Lecture and Lab)

Lunch

CUDA C/Fortran Programming (Lecture and Lab)

Wrap Up and Q&A

Wednesday, April 9

Join in

Code Challenge (porting a 2D regular-grid CFD simulation to GPU)

Q&A about Code Challenge