Introduction to Accelerators - Training
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Date: | 09.12.2015 9:00 - 11.12.2015 17:00 |
Location details: | The event is organised at the CSC Training Facilities located in the premises of CSC at Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland. The best way to reach us is by public transportation; more detailed travel tips are available. |
Language: | english-language |
lecturers: |
Sami Ilvonen (CSC) Sebastian von Alfthan (CSC) Mikko Byckling (Intel) |
Price: |
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The course materials, lunches as well as morning and afternoon coffees are free of charge. |
Description
This course will give a short introduction to NVidia GPU's and Intel Xeon Phis, which are currently the two most popular accelerator architectures in HPC. In addition to the basic pragma-based programming models some performance considerations and limitations to the memory traffic between the host and the accelerator will be discussed. Last part of the course will give a short one-day introduction to the lower level approach for GPU programming using CUDA.
Learning outcome
The students will learn the strengths and weaknesses of accelerators and know how to utilize them for simple tasks with pragma-based programming tools. In addition, students will also learn the basics of low-level GPU programming using CUDA.
Day 1
Introduction to Xeon Phi, offloading, data access and performance, more advanced topics
Day 2
Introduction to GPUs, OpenACC basics, data access and performance, more advanced topics
Day 3
Introduction to CUDA programming, kernels, memory model, events and streams