BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260706T121950Z UID:5f0b9e2d-b0b3-4f6d-8ed8-acfbace6223b DTSTART:20180522T070000Z DTEND:20180523T140000Z DESCRIPTION:Accelerator Programming\nGPU programming using CUDA\n\n22 - 23 May 2018\n\nDescription\n\nThe focus is to understand the basics of accele rator programming with the CUDA parallel computing platform model. \n\nCUD A is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface ( API) model created by NVIDIA. It allows software developers to use a CUDA- enabled graphics processing unit (GPU) for general purpose processing – an approach known as GPGPU. The CUDA platform is a software layer that giv es direct access to the GPU’s virtual instruction set and parallel compu tational elements\, for the execution of compute kernels. \n\nThe course a lso contains performance and best practice considerations\, e.g.\, gpu lib raries\, performance optimizations\, tools for debugging and profiling.\n\ nAfter the course the participants should have the basic skills needed for utilizing CUDA and OpenACC in new\, or existing (own code) programs.\n\nP rerequisites\n\nThe course addresses participants who are familiar with th e C/C++ or Fortran programming languages and have working experience with the Linux operating system and the use of the command line. Experience wit h parallel programming or gpu programming (MPI\,OpenMP and CUDA) is not re quired.\n\nBring your own laptop in order to be able to participate in the training hands on. Hands on work will be done in pairs so if you don’t have a laptop you might work with a colleague. \n\nCourse language is Engl ish.\n\nRegistration\n\nThe maximum number of participants is 25. \n\nRegi strations will be evaluated on a first-come\, first-served basis. GRNET is responsible for the selection of the participants on the basis of the tra ining requirements and the technical skills of the candidates. GRNET will also seek to guarantee the maximum possible geographical coverage with th e participation of candidates from many countries.\n\nVenue\n\nGRNET headq uarters\n\nAddress: 2nd  Floor\, 7\, Kifisias Av. GR 115 23 Athens\n\nInf ormation on how to reach GRNET headquarters ia available on GRNET website: https://grnet.gr/en/contact-us/  \n\nAccommodation options near GRNET c an be found at: https://grnet.gr/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/Hotel s-near-GRNET-en.pdf\n\nARIS - System Information\n\nARIS is the name of th e Greek supercomputer\, deployed and operated by GRNET (Greek Research and Technology Network) in Athens. ARIS consists of 532 computational nodes s eperated in four “islands” as listed here:\n\n\n 426 thin nodes: Regul ar compute nodes without accelerator.\n \n \n 44 gpu nodes: “2 x NVIDIA Tesla k40m” accelerated nodes.\n \n \n 18 phi nodes: “2 x INTEL Xeon P hi 7120p” accelerated nodes.\n \n \n 44 fat nodes: Fat compute nodes hav e larger number of cores and memory per core than a thin node.\n \nAll the nodes are connected via Infiniband network and share 2PB GPFS storage.The infrastructure also has an IBM TS3500 library of maximum storage capacity of about 6 PB. Access to the system is provided by two login nodes. \n\nA bout Tutors\n\nDr. Dellis (Male) holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry (1990) and PhD in Computational Chemistry (1995) from the National and Kapodistrian Univ ersity of Athens\, Greece. He has extensive HPC and grid computing experie nce. He was using HPC systems in computational chemistry research projects on fz-juelich machines (2003-2005). He received an HPC-Europa grant on BS C (2009). In EGEE/EGI projects he acted as application support and VO soft ware manager for SEE VO\, grid sites administrator (HG-02\, GR-06)\, NGI_G RNET support staff (2008-2014). In PRACE 1IP/2IP/3IP/4IP/5IP he was involv ed in benchmarking tasks either as group member or as BCO (2010-2017). Cur rently he holds the position of “Senior HPC Applications Support Enginee r” at GRNET S.A. where he is responsible for activities related to user consultations\, porting\, optimization and running HPC applications at nat ional and international resources.\n\nNikolaos Nikoloutsakos holds a diplo ma of Engineering in Computer Engineering and Informatics (2014) from the University of Patras\, Greece. From 2015 he works as software engineer at GRNET S.A. where he is part of the user application support team for the A RIS HPC system. He has been involved in major national and European projec ts\, such as PRACE and EUDAT. His main research interests include parallel programming models\, co-processor programming using GPUs and Intel Xeon Phis.\n\nDr. Ioannis E. Venetis received his PhD in 2006 from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department at the University of Patras\, Gree ce. Currently he teaches "Parallel Processing" and "Software and Programmi ng for High Performance Systems" at the same Department. He has participat ed in numerous research projects in the area of Parallel Computing. His ma in research interests include parallel programming models\, run-time syste ms for supporting such models\, co-processor programming (especially using GPUs and the Intel Xeon Phi) and parallelization of computationally deman ding applications. \n\nDr Aristeidis Sotiropoulos received his BSc in Comp uter Science in 1998 from the University of Crete\, Greece and his PhD in Parallel Processing and Cluster Computing in 2004 from the National Techni cal University of Athens\, Greece. His interests mainly focus on the field s of Large Scale Computing &\; Storage Systems\, System Software for Sc alable High Speed Interconnects for Computer Clusters and Advanced Micropr ocessor Architectures. He has published several scientific papers in inter national journals and conference proceedings. He has received the IEEE IPD PS 2001 best paper award for the paper "Minimizing Completion Time for Loo p Tiling with Computation and Communication Overlapping". He has worked in several European and National R&\;D programs in the field of High Perf ormance Computing\, Grid Computing\, Cloud Computing and Storage. In 2013\ , he was appointed as the Head of Operations and Financial Management Serv ices\, in charge of 15 people. Currently\, he is managing EC projects at G RNET SA\, the Greek NREN responsible for the provision of advanced e-infra structure services to the Greek Academic and Research Community.\n\nAbout GRNET\n\nGRNET provides Internet connectivity\, high-quality e-Infrastruct ures and advanced services to the Greek Educational\, Academic and Researc h community.\n\nThrough its high-speed\, high-capacity infrastructure that spans across the entire country\, GRNET interconnects more than 150 insti tutions\, including all universities and technological institutions\, as w ell as many research institutes and the public Greek School Network.\n\nGR NET operates the National High Performance Computing system (a Tier-1 in t he European HPC ecosystem) and offers user and application support service s\, that provide Greek scientists with the computing infrastructure and ex pertise they need for their research enabling them to perform large scale simulations.\n\nGRNET offers innovative IaaS cloud computing services to t he Greek and global research &\; education communities: “ ~okeanos” and “okeanos global” allow users to create multi-layer virtual infras tructure and instantiate virtual computing machines\, local networks to in terconnect them\, and a reliable storage space within seconds\, with few\, simple mouse clicks.\n\nGRNET aims at contributing towards Greece’s Dig ital Convergence with the EU\, by supporting the development and encouragi ng the use of e-Infrastructures and services. The right and timely plannin g strategies\, together with the long experience and know-how of its peopl e\, guarantee the continuation and enhancement of GRNET’s successful cou rse.\n\nGreek Research and Technology Network – Networking Reserach and Education:\n\nwww.grnet.gr\, hpc.grnet.gr\n\nhttps://events.prace-ri.eu/ev ent/735/ SUMMARY:Accelerator Programming @GRNET URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/735/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR