High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

BOOTCAMP: N-Ways to GPU Programming

This Bootcamp will be held online with Zoom.

During this two-day online Bootcamp, participants will learn about multiple GPU programming models and will be able to choose the one that best fits their needs to run their scientific codes on GPUs. This Bootcamp will cover an introduction to GPU programming using OpenACC, OpenMP, stdpar and CUDA, and will provide hands-on opportunities to learn how to analyse GPU-enabled applications using NVIDIA® Nsight™ Systems. This online Bootcamp is a hands-on learning experience where you will be guided through step-by-step instructions with teaching assistants on hand to help throughout.

The Bootcamp is co-organised by HLRS, JSC, LRZ, VSC, OpenACC.org and NVIDIA for EuroCC Austria and EuroCC@GCS, the Austrian and German National Competence Centres for High-Performance Computing.

Location

Online course
Organizer: HLRS, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Start date

May 15, 2023
09:00

End date

May 16, 2023
12:30

Language

English

Entry level

Intermediate

Course subject areas

Bootcamp/Hackathon

Hardware Accelerators

Parallel Programming

Topics

Code Optimization

GPU Programming

OpenMP

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Prerequisites and content levels

Prerequisites

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

Content levels
  • Intermediate level: 6 hours
  • Advanced level: 3,5 hours

Learn more about course curricula and content levels.

Instructors

Main lecturers: Paul Graham (NVIDIA)

Teaching Assistants:

  • Tobias Haas, Lorenzo Zanon (HLRS)
  • Jayesh Badwaik, Kaveh Haghighi-Mood (JSC)
  • Momme Allalen, Volker Weinberg (LRZ)
  • Claudia Blaas-Schenner, Siegfried Höfinger, Moritz Siegel, Soner Steiner, Ivan Vialov (VSC)

Agenda

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All times in CEST:

Day 1: Introduction

  • 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome (Moderator)
  • 09:15 - 09:30 Connecting to a cluster
  • 09:30 - 10:00 Introduction to GPU computing (Lecture)
  • 10:00 - 10:45 Accelerating Standard C++ and Fortran with GPUs (Lecture and Lab)
  • 10:45 - 11:00 Break
  • 11:00 - 12:30 Directive Based Programming with OpenMP and OpenACC on GPU (Lecture and Lab)
  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 - 16:00 CUDA C/Fortran Programming (Lecture and Lab)

Day 2: Challenge: Hands-on

  • 09:00 - 12:00 Teaching assistants are assigned to help with the code challenge
  • 12:00 - 12:30 Wrap up and Q&A

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 information

The course is open and free of charge for participants from academia and industry.

Please register at OpenACC-Standard.org via the button at the top of this page with your institutional e-mail address to prove your affiliation.

The final participants will be selected and informed after the registration deadline has passed.

This course is offered in cooperation by HLRS, JSC, LRZ, VSC, OpenACC.org and NVIDIA. Registration is done via www.gpuhackathons.org hosted by OpenACC-Standard.org. Your registration data will be transferred to these partners. For legal notes see the Privacy Policy.

Registration closes on April 24, 2023 at 23:55.

Fees

This event is free of charge.

Contact

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

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. EuroCC@GCS 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 coordinates HammerHAI. 

This course is provided within the framework of EuroCC2.

Further courses and training team

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

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