The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in association with Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) has been awarded by NVIDIA as a GPU Center of Excellence. BSC and UPC currently offer a number of courses covering CUDA architecture and programming languages for parallel computing. Please contact us for possible collaborations.

The seventh edition of the Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems summer school (PUMPS) is aimed at enriching the skills of researchers, graduate students and teachers with cutting-edge technique and hands-on experience in developing applications for many-core processors with massively parallel computing resources like GPU accelerators.

Summer School Co-Directors: Mateo Valero (BSC and UPC) and Wen-mei Hwu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)


Local Organizers: Antonio J. Peña (BSC), Victor Garcia (BSC and UPC), and Nacho Navarro (BSC and UPC)


Dates:


    Applications due: May 31, 2016


        Due to space limitations, early application is strongly recommended. You may also be suggested to attend an online prerequisite training on basic CUDA programming before joining PUMPS.



    Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2016


    Summer school: July 11-15, 2016



Organized by:


    Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)


    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (University of Illinois)


    Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)


    HiPEAC Network of Excellence (HiPEAC)


    PUMPS is part of this year PRACE Advanced Training Centre program



The following is a list of some of the topics that will be covered during the course:


    CUDA Algorithmic Optimization Strategies


    Dealing with Sparse and Dynamic data


    Efficiency in Large Data Traversal


    Reducing Output Interference


    Controlling Load Imbalance and Divergence


    Acceleration of Collective Operations


    Dynamic Parallelism and HyperQ


    Debugging and Profiling CUDA Code


    Multi-GPU Execution


    Architecture Trends and Implications


    Introduction to OmpSs and to the Paraver analysis tool


    OmpSs: Leveraging GPU/CUDA Programming


    Hands-on Labs: CUDA Optimizations on Scientific Codes; OmpSs Programming and Tuning



Instructors:


    Distinguished Lecturers: Wen-mei Hwu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and David Kirk (NVIDIA Corporation )


    Invited Lecturer: Juan Gómez-Luna (Universidad de Córdoba)


    BSC / UPC Lecturers: Xavier Martorell and Xavier Teruel


    Teaching Assistants: Abdul Dakkak, Carl Pearson, Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, Marc Jorda, Pau Farre, Javier Bueno, Aimar Rodriguez



Prerequisites for the course are:


    Basic CUDA knowledge is required to attend the course. Applicants that cannot certify their experience in CUDA programming will be asked to take a short on-line course covering the necessary introductory topics


    C, C++, Java, or equivalent programming knowledge. Skills in parallel programming will be helpful

Preliminary Overview

Registration for the course is free. We expect our sponsors will cover academic applicants' marginal expenses such as meals. Please note that travel and lodging are not covered. Applicants from non-academic institutions (companies), please contact us at [email protected] for sponsorship possibilities.


By the end of the summer school, participants will:


    Be able to design algorithms that are suitable for accelerators.


    Understand the most important architectural performance considerations for developing parallel applications.


    Be exposed to computational thinking skills for accelerating applications in science and engineering.


    Engage computing accelerators on science and engineering breakthroughs.



Programming Languages: CUDA, MPI, OmpSs, OpenCL


Hands-on Labs: Afternoon labs with teaching assistants for each audience/level.


    Participants are expected to bring their own laptops to access the servers with GPU accelerators.


    The afternoon lab sessions will provide hands-on experience with various languages and tools covered in the lectures and will comprise a brief introduction to the programming assignments, followed by independent work periods. Teaching assistants will be available in person and on the web to help with assignments.

In Memoriam - Nacho Navarro

We dedicate this edition of the Summer School to our friend Nacho Navarro, who sadly passed away on February 28th, 2016. He was the father of this summer school, organizing it since its very first edition back in 2010. We invite you to visit the website BSC opened for him: In Memoriam - Nacho Navarro and contribute sharing your experiences with our beloved colleague.

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