EPF Lausanne, Switzerland,
September 7 - 8 2009

Tutorial on practical use of GPUs

Directions

The tutorial will take place in room BC07-BC08 at EPFL.

9:00 - 10:30

Session 1: GPU basics

Welcome and introduction (Dominik)

Why GPUs? (Robert)

Ready-to-use GPU libraries (Dominik)

GPU architecture (Dominik)

10:30 - 10:45

short break

10:45 - 11:30

Session 2a: CUDA basics

Introduction to NVIDIA CUDA (Christian)

CUDA Parallel Programming Model and C for CUDA (Christian)

11:30 - 12:15

Session 2b: CUDA tutorial "hands-on"

basic usage of the CUDA tool chain

porting a simple data-parallel operation to the CUDA architecture using C for CUDA

12:15 - 13:15

lunch break

13:15 - 14:15

Session 3a: Advanced CUDA

CUDA Toolkit (Christian)

Optimizing Performance (Christian)

CUDA Directions (Christian)

14:15 - 15:15

Session 3b: CUDA tutorial "hands-on"

practical experiments and basic important optimisation steps

performance experiments and evaluation

15:15 - 15:30

short break

15:30 - 16:30

Session 4: Scientific computing

Aspects of scientific computing on GPUs (Robert)

GPU cluster computing primer (Dominik)

16:30 - ...

Session 5: Wrap up and discussion