Training course "Vectorisation and portable programming using OpenCL"
(Course no. 83/2015 in the training programme of Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Target audience: | Scientists who want to use GPU systems with OpenCL |
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Prerequisites: | Some knowledge about Linux, e.g. make, command line editor, Linux shell, experience in C |
Language: | This course is given in English. |
Duration: | 2 days |
Date: | 23-24 March 2015, 9:00-16:30 |
Venue: | Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Ausbildungsraum 2, building 16.3, room 211 |
Number of participants: | minimum 5, maximum 24 |
Instructors: | Dr. Wolfram Schenck, Willi Homberg, JSC |
Contact: | Willi Homberg |
Registration: | Please register with Willi Homberg until 5 March 2015. If you do not belong to the staff of Forschungszentrum Jülich, we need these data for registration: Given name, name, birthday, nationality, complete home address |
OpenCL provides an open, portable C-based programming model for highly parallel processors. In contrast to NVIDIA's proprietary programming API CUDA, a primary goal of OpenCL is portability across a diverse set of computing devices including CPUs, GPUs, and other accelerators.
Topics covered will include:
- Introduction to vectorisation
- Programming model of OpenCL
- Datatypes and OpenCL vectorisation features
- Tuning for architectures like CPUs, accelerators (GPUs), and co-processors (Xeon Phi)
Heterogeneous multi-device programming