Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart: GPU Porting for HPC: Opportunities, Tools and Libraries

Instructors

Tobias Haas (HLRS)
Tapish Narwal (HZDR / CASUS)
Zoltán Horváth (Széchenyi István University)
Tim Wegmann (RWTH Aachen University)

Agenda

Preliminary Agenda:

Thursday, 5. November

8:45 Log in to the videoconference
9:00 Welcome
9:05 - 12:00 (including breaks)

Introduction to GPU Programming - Opportunities and Challenges (HLRS)
- Differences between CPU and GPU
- GPU Architecture and Consequences
- Programming models
- Summary
- Discussion

13:00 - 16:00 (including breaks)

The alpaka library: task-parallel kernel execution on heterogenous hardware (PLASMA-PEPSC)
- Introduction
- Getting alpaka & project setup
- Basic concepts
- First kernel
- Higher-level algorithms & helpers
- Summary
- Discussion / Q&A

Friday, 6. November

9:00 - 12:00 (including breaks)
The multiphysics framework m-AIA (EXCELLERAT)

- Welcome and Introduction to the multiphysics framework m-AIA
- GPU porting in C++ with parallel STL in m-AIA
- Discussion and Coffee break
- Adaptation and dynamic load balancing on GPUs

(13:00 - 16:00) afternoon session tbd

Application phase closes on November, 4, 2026.

Fees

This course is offered free of charge for participants from Europe and EuroCC countries. For lists of EU and EuroCC countries have a look at the Horizon Europe and EuroCC website.

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

Contact

Lucienne Dettki phone 0711 685 63894, training(at)hlrs.de
Abdullatif Eymash phone 0711 685 87244

Further courses and training team

See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.
See also information about the HLRS training department and staff.

Official course URL(s)

https://www.hlrs.de/training/2026/gpu-alliance and the EXCELLERAT course webpage.

HLRS Training Collaborations in HPC and AI

HLRS is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), together with JSC in Jülich and LRZ in Garching near Munich. SIDE is the German National Competence Centre (NCC) for High-Performance Computing. HLRS is also a member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC.
Since 2025, HLRS has been coordinating one of the AI Factories of the EuroHPC JU: HammerHAI.

Acknowledgements

EuroCC 3 has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under Grant Agreement No. 101306701. The JU receives support from the European Union‘s Digital Europe Programme and Germany, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, and Kosovo.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Neither the European Union nor the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking can be held responsible for them.

HPC in Europe is the umbrella brand uniting Europe's high-performance computing initiatives across 36+ countries.

Further courses and training team

See the training overview and the Supercomputing Academy pages.
See also information about the HLRS training department and staff.

GPU Porting for HPC: Opportunities, Tools and Libraries

Veranstaltungsort

Instructors

Agenda

Fees

Contact

Further courses and training team

Official course URL(s)

HLRS Training Collaborations in HPC and AI

Acknowledgements

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