N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp

Europe/Warsaw
Online

Online

Description

Explore four different GPU programming models in just one and a half days.

The N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp covers the basics of GPU programming and provides an overview of different methods for porting applications to GPUs using NVIDIA CUDA, OpenACC and OpenMP offloading, and standard languages (C/C++ and Fortran).

Throughout the bootcamp, attendees with teaching assistants on hand will explore multiple GPU programming models, learn how to analyze GPU-enabled applications using NVIDIA Nsight Systems, and participate in hands-on activities to apply these learned skills to real-world problems.

Please ensure you meet all prerequisites / eligibility before you apply.

Agenda & Content

See Agenda & Content in the left menu for a detailed timetable and course content.

Content level

Content level: Basic = (100%) + Intermediate = (0%) + Advanced = (0%)

Entry level

Basic – no prior GPU programming knowledge is required

Prerequisites

Basic experience with C/C++ or Fortran

Target audience

Course for academia, industry, and public administration.

Course format

This course will be delivered as a LIVE ONLINE COURSE (using Zoom).

All communication will be done through Zoom, Slack, and email.

Hands-on labs

Attendees will be given access to an A100 GPU on one of the supercomputers of the organizers.

Lecturers

Event Moderator:  Claudia Blaas-Schenner (ASC Research Center, TU Wien)

Instructors:      
                                 Tobias Haas (HLRS, University of Stuttgart)      
                                 Volker Weinberg (LRZ)

Teaching assistants from the participating HPC centres:

Language

English

Date, time, and location

14.09.2026, 09:00 CEST – 15.09.2026, 12:30 CEST, LIVE ONLINE COURSE (using Zoom)

Prices and eligibility

This course is partly funded by the EuroCC 3 project. Therefore, the course is open and free of charge for participants from academia, industry, and public administration from EU and/or EuroHPC JU member countries.

Registration

Registration for this training event is handled by Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC).

Please register with your official email address to prove your affiliation.

You will get an automatic confirmation via email (subject starting with „[Indico] Registration“), please check your Spam/Junk folders.

Following your successful registration, you will receive further information approximately 1 week before the bootcamp.

Modification, withdrawal & no-show policy

Your application is binding. Please only apply for the bootcamp if you are really going to attend.

You can update your application data or withdraw your application anytime before the registration form has been closed via the link „Manage my registration“ which you can find at the bottom of your automatic email confirmation (subject starting with „[Indico] Registration“).

Alternatively, or after the registration form has been closed, please inform us about your cancelation or any change in your registration data (especially your mobile-phone number) via email (training@asc.ac.at).

No-show policy: Once accepted, if you do not cancel and do not show up at the course you will be blacklisted and excluded from future training events.


Organized by

This bootcamp is co-organized by the National Competence Centres for Supercomputing in Austria (ACA), Germany (SIDE), and Poland (NCC-PL) together with their supercomputing centres Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC)High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH (Cyfronet), and OpenACC organization and NVIDIA.

Funded by

Acknowledgements

This course is partially funded by the EuroCC 3 project.

EuroCC 3 has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under Grant Agreement No. 101306701. The JU receives support from the European Union‘s Digital Europe Programme and Germany, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, and Kosovo.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Neither the European Union nor the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking can be held responsible for them.

 

Organised by

ACC Cyfronet AGH

  • Monday 14 September
    • 08:45 09:00
      Join in 15m
    • 09:00 09:15
      Welcome to the N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp (Moderator) 15m
    • 09:15 09:45
      Introduction to GPU Computing (Lecture) 30m
    • 09:45 10:15
      Introduction to Nsight Systems (Lecture and Read-Only Lab) 30m
    • 10:15 11:15
      Accelerating Standard C++ and Fortran with GPUs (Lecture and Lab) 1h
    • 11:15 11:30
      Break 15m
    • 11:30 13:00
      Directive Based Programming with OpenACC or OpenMP on GPU (Lecture and Lab) 1h 30m
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 15:45
      CUDA C/Fortran Programming (Lecture and Lab) 1h 45m
    • 15:45 15:55
      Description of the Code Challenge 10m
    • 15:55 16:00
      Wrap Up and Q&A 5m
  • Tuesday 15 September
    • 08:45 09:00
      Join in 15m
    • 09:00 09:30
      Accelerating Python on GPUs (Lecture; optional) 30m
    • 09:00 12:00
      Code Challenge (porting a 2D regular-grid CFD simulation to GPU) 3h
    • 12:00 12:30
      Q&A about Code Challenge 30m