Modern high core count CPUs and accelerators, such as GPUs, have been shown to provide significant performance benefits in many different applications. However, for a novice, or even for a moderately experienced scientist or programmer, it is not always clear which applications could potentially benefit from these resources and which do not. For example, a Nvidia V100 GPU can perform artificial intelligence (AI) related computations in a fraction of the time it takes a regular CPU to perform the same computations but ill-informed OpenACC compiler pragmas can actually make a code run slower. Why is this? When should one invest time in parallelization and/or GPU-acceleration? How much speedup can be expected with a given application?

The main goal of this two-day course is to start answering these questions. The course also covers the basics of GPU programming and aims to provide the necessary information for avoiding the most common pitfalls.

More information, schedule, and registration can be found on the course webpage at HPC2N, Umeå University.
https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/1064/