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Summer School
Parallel High Performance Computing using Accelerators
This Summer School is a free set of lecturers and tutorials that aims to expose to a selected audience, expert researchers from Texas and Utah Universities and from Intel, addressing issues that are relevant for every software developer in current days: parallelism in heterogeneous HPC environments, with both multi-core CPU devices and many-core accelerators, namely NVidia GPUs and the Intel Xeon Phi.
This Summer School will provide participants with knowledge and hands-on experience in developing applications software for many-core processors.
By end of the Summer School, participants will:
- Understand algorithm styles that are suitable for accelerators.
- Understand the key architectural and compiling performance considerations to developing applications.
- Be exposed to computational thinking skills for accelerating applications in science and engineering, including dense/sparse linear algebra, machine learning and big data.
- Gain ability to engage computing accelerators on science and engineering breakthroughs.
Note: Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops. Laptop computers will not be provided.
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Target Audience
Graduate students in Computer Science and researchers in computational science and engineering with HPC and big data needs.
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Cost and Registration
Participation in this Summer School is free of charge, but registration is mandatory, to guarantee that the lectures and hands-on sessions are adequately delivered and the coffee breaks are properly served. The form is also available through here.
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Prerequisites
- C/C++, OpenMP, CUDA
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Pre-school tutorial
On Monday, June 23, 15h-18h, an online course on CUDA Introduction with hands-on will be provided for those that request it in the registration form.
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Key Lecturers
- - Keshav Pingali, Director of the Advanced Computing field in CoLab@Austin
- - Donald Fussell, Professor at Dep. Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
- - John Cazes, Texas Advanced Computing Center
- - Carlos Rosales, Texas Advanced Computing Center
- - Jongsoo Park, Senior Researcher, Intel
- - Lucas Wilson, Texas Advanced Computing Center
- - Mary Hall, Professor at Dep. Computer Science, University of Utah
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Invited Speakers
- - Basilio Fraguela, Univ. de Coruña
- - Dora Blanco, Univ. Santiago Compostela
- - Luís Paulo Santos, Univ. Minho
- - Miguel Avillez, Univ. Évora
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Organization
The Summer School was organized by Keshav Pingali and Alberto Proenca under the sponsorship of CoLab, the collaboration program between Portugal and the University of Texas at Austin.
The Local Organization of the event was chaired by Jose Luis Faria, with the committed cooperation of Joao Barbosa - who prepared, trained the TA's and gave the online course on CUDA - and Albano Serrano, efficiently ensured the local computing resources for the Xeon Phi tutorial and the CUDA course.