[LA-SiGMA-gpu] [kjones at cct.lsu.edu: [Events] Computational Science Training (VSCSE) - Registration Open]

[Juana Moreno]

Dear all, 

     The Bluewaters Consortium is hosting two Virtual schools at LSU. 
The first one on GPUs, CUDA and heterogeneous computing begins July 10th:
Programming Heterogeneous Parallel Computing Systems. This will be a 
very good workshop taught by top experts on GPU programming.

     Mark and I encourage you to register for the "Programming Heterogeneous 
Parallel Computing Systems" as soon as possible. The workshop changes every 
year, so, even if you attended last summer, I am sure you will find it 
interesting. 

     The LA-SiGMA award at LSU will cover the $100 registration fee for 
LA-SiGMA students and postdocs. Just let Bety Rodriguez-Milla 
<brodrig at cct.lsu.edu> know when you complete your registration. 
 
     Best regards,
			Juana        

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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:32:21 -0500
From: Karen Jones <kjones at cct.lsu.edu>
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Subject: [Events] Computational Science Training (VSCSE) - Registration Open
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***REMINDER -- training opportunities located at LSU CCT
 for faculty, researchers and students***


The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) is
excited to announce three Summer School courses for 2012. The VSCSE
provides courses and learning resources to help computational science
students use emerging petascale computing resources to address real
domain science problems. The summer courses for 2012 are:

Programming Heterogeneous Parallel Computing Systems (July 10 - 13, 2012)--**located at LSU CCT

Science Cloud Summer School (July 30 - August 3, 2012)--**located at LSU CCT

Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors (August 13 - 17, 2012)

These courses will be delivered to a number of sites nationwide using
high definition video conferencing technologies, allowing students to
travel to a number of convenient locations where they will be able to
work with a cohort of fellow computational scientists, have access to
local experts and interact virtually with course instructors.
Registration fees for these courses are $100* and help the host sites
offset their hospitality and facility costs.

Please visit http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2012/ for more
information and the full site list or http://hub.vscse.org to register
today!

*Departmental account numbers will be accepted for registration fees.  Contact kjones at lsu.edu for more information.

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Programming Heterogeneous Parallel Computing Systems
July 10 - 13, 2012
Course outline:

Introduction and a Quick review of CUDA C
Heterogeneous computing architectures and programming models
common algorithmic strategies for high performance
Work partitioning, kernels, thread grids, keywords and run-time APIs
The von Neumann model and modern computer hardware
Kernel-Based Data parallelism model
Mapping of thread indices to data indices
Thread/Warp scheduling and transparent scalability
Mapping of the OpenCL kernel model to the CUDA kernel model
CUDA memory types
Registers, on-chip scratchpad memory, caches and DRAM
Shared memory vs. register tiling
CUDA task parallelism model
Streams, queues and contexts
Double buffering to overlap data transfers with kernel execution
CUDA and OpenCL host code APIs
GMAC API for simplified task parallelism and multi-GPU programming
Automated double buffering and queue/stream management
Multi-GPU data exchange support
OpenACC for simplified kernel creation and deployment
OpenACC directives and pragma
Using OpenACC in a heterogeneous parallel application
MPI in a Heterogeneous Parallel Computing Environment
Domain partitioning, MPI ranks, and MPI communication
An example of heterogeneous parallel application using MPI and CUDA/OpenCL
Overlapping MPI message latency with node-level computation
FORTRAN in a heterogeneous parallel computing environment
Memory layout considerations
PGI compiler pragmas
Important Patterns of Heterogeneous Parallel Applications
TBD, to be selected from convolution, reduction, prefix scan, stencil
Hands-on Lab
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Science Cloud Summer School

July 30 – August 3, 2012

The Science Cloud Summer School targets education and training of graduate students and the fostering of a community around a topic that has increasing interest and relevance: the use of cloud computing technologies in science - including infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service. Because cloud computing systems and technologies provide a considerable departure from traditional models and evolve at a rapid pace, this event would provide a basis for students to immerse in a focused, intensive curriculum to learn fundamentals and experiment with these technologies in practice. We will cover topics of interest to students with both application and computer science focus.   



Karen Cade Jones
Assistant Director, Outreach & Events
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
225-578-0595
kjones at cct.lsu.edu




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