[LA-SiGMA] HPC Training: Introduction to GPU programming

[Feng Chen]

Dear All,

The Schedule for the Fall 2014 HPC Training is available at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php.

Note that all HPC trainings will start at 9:30AM from October, 2014.

Our next HPC training will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 9:30 AM in 307 Frey and broadcast through Adobe Connect for remote users.

Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014: Introduction to GPU programming

This tutorial is a basic introduction to programming GPUs using Nvidia's programming environment.
Basics of the GPU architecture, basic CUDA C programming and directive based OpenACC programming will be covered.
Some simple examples demonstrating basic techniques for getting greater performance out of GPUs will also be discussed.
No prior experience with GPU is required.
Prerequisites: LSU HPC account, laptop with SSH client installed, familiarity with C or Fortran is assumed but not required

Next HPC Training:

Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014: Xeon Phi Programming on SuperMIC

Intel Xeon Phi is a coprocessor based on Many Integrated Core Architecture or MIC (pronounced Mick or Mike). Xeon Phi can accelerate computer codes substantially. More importantly, the programming architecture is based on traditional OpenMP and MPI. It is convenient to migrate your current CPU-based OepnMP or MPI codes to Xeon Phi. The recently launched supercomputer SuperMIC at LSU provides hundreds of compute nodes with Xeon Phis. If you want to accelerate your codes on SuperMIC, this is really the training you cannot miss. In the first part of this training, Xeon Phi's computing features and its usage in HPC will be introduced. Then we will mainly focus on the state-of-the-art programming on Xeon Phi, including native mode, offloading and symmetric processing. You will learn how to write, compile and run computer codes on Xeon Phi.
Prerequisites: OpenMP parallel computing, MPI parallel computing, C or Fortran programming (either one is fine.), all of the above are assumed but not required.

Please visit http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials.php for more details and register using the link provided.
Users who plan on joining remotely will be provided with an Adobe Connect Link in their registration confirmation email. Please see the system requirements at http://connect.grok.lsu.edu/Categories.aspx?parentCategoryId=1519.

Please distribute to faculty, staff and students that might be interested.

Thanks,

Feng Chen, Ph.D.
IT Analyst 3
347, Frey Computing Services Center,
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Voice: (225) 578-2924
eMail: fchen14 at lsu.edu<mailto:fchen14 at lsu.edu>

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