COVID19 Update

After analyzing the situation caused by the global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we decided to cancel the upcoming PUMPS+AI 2020 Summer school. Since it is still uncertain when we will be able to go back to a more normal situation, and given the fact that gatherings of large groups of people will be discouraged/disallowed for a longer period of time than other contention measures, the PUMPS+AI organization committee agreed to cancel this year's edition.

We hope you are all doing well, and to see you in Barcelona for the 2021 edition of PUMPS+AI!

Take care,
PUMPS+AI Organizers

 

PUMPS+AI Summer School, 2020, July 05-10

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in association with Universitat Politècnica 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.

This year PUMPS+AI is collocated with the 34th edition of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS-2020), the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in high-performance computing systems, which will be held in Barcelona from June 29 to July 2 2020.

The eleventh edition of the Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems + Artificial Intelligence summer school (PUMPS+AI) 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 (responsible, BSC and UPC), Marc Jordà (BSC), Simon Garcia de Gonzalo (BSC)
  • Dates:
    • Applications due: April 30, 2020
      • 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: May 15, 2020
    • Hackathon day: 05 July (only for selected applicants)
    • Summer school: 06-10 July
  • Location: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Computer Architecture Dept. at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  • The following is a list of some of the topics that will be covered during the course:
    • Deep Learning
    • High-level programming models (OpenACC, Python, and Mathematica on GPUs)
    • 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

Preliminary Overview

  • Registration for the course is free for attendees from academia and public institutions. Please note that travel, lodging, and meals are not covered. Applicants from non-academic institutions (companies), please contact us by email at pumps at bsc.es for sponsorship possibilities.
  • By the end of the summer school, participants will:
    • Be able to design algorithms (including deep learning / AI) 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, OpenACC
  • 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.