PRACE Spring School on New and Emerging Technologies – Programming for Accelerators

PRACE Spring School on New and Emerging Technologies – Programming for
Accelerators, Umeå, Sweden, from Tuesday, April 23, at 09.00 to Friday
April 26 at 16.00 (CET), 2013.

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is pleased to
announce the Spring School on New and Emerging Technologies – Programming for Accelerators. The Spring School is organized by SNIC and hosted by High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) in Umeå,
Sweden. Expert presenters from PRACE Advanced Training Centers (PATCs)
and vendors will combine lectures and hands-on sessions to provide an
introduction to accelerator programming. The official language will be
English.

It is a four day intensive event, where the first two days, presented by the IT Center for Science (CSC) and Intel, will focus on the Intel(R) Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture looking at basic usage, programming models, performance analysis and optimization strategies. We also hope to be able to provide access to a real system for hands-on.

The third day, presented by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
(EPCC), is dedicated to learning how and when to off-load computations
to accelerators using OpenACC. The day mixes lectures and practical
sessions using GPUs as the target accelerator.

On the final day, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will present a comprehensive view of the architecture of their ARM-based prototypes (ARM multicore cluster and ARM+CUDA GPU cluster) and how to program these machines efficiently. The day will include hands-on exercises.

The school is aimed at PRACE users, final year master students, PhD
students, and young researchers in computational sciences and engineering, with different backgrounds, interested in applying the
emerging technologies on high performance computing to their research.

The participants should have programming experience and it is an
advantage to be familiar with parallel programming and have experience using for example MPI, OpenMP, or multi-core programming.

The school is offered free of charge to students and academics residing
in PRACE member states. Lunches, coffee breaks and an evening dinner event is included.

Note that the number of full participants is limited to around 30 seats. Please register as soon as possible, but no later than March 31.

For more information and registration see
https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/prace2013/information