Learn how to accelerate your applications with OpenACC and CUDA, how to train and deploy a neural network to solve real-world problems, and how to effectively parallelize training of deep neural networks on Multi-GPUs.

The online workshop combines lectures about Accelerated Computing with OpenACC and CUDA with lectures about Fundamentals of Deep Learning for single and for Multi-GPUs.

The lectures are interleaved with many hands-on sessions using Jupyter Notebooks. The exercises will be done on a fully configured GPU-accelerated workstation in the cloud.

The workshop is part of PRACE Training Centres activity and co-organized by LRZ – Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Garching near Munich) as part of Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (Germany), IT4I – National Supercomputing Center VSB Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic), CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd (Finland) and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE).

The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute delivers hands-on training for developers, data scientists, and engineers. The program is designed to help you get started with training, optimizing, and deploying neural networks to solve real-world problems across diverse industries such as self-driving cars, healthcare, online services, and robotics.

All instructors are NVIDIA certified University Ambassadors.

Lecturers: 

Dr. Momme Allalen, Dr. Juan Durillo Barrionuevo, Dr. Volker Weinberg (LRZ and NVIDIA University Ambassadors), Georg Zitzlsberger (IT4Innovations and NVIDIA University Ambassador)

Language: English

Price and Eligibility: This 4 day course is OPEN and FREE of charge for academic participants from the Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Associated/Other Countries to the Horizon 2020 programme.

Agenda / Learning outcomes

1st day: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with OpenACC (10:00-16:00 EEST | 09:00-15:00 CEST)

On the first day you learn the basics of OpenACC, a high-level programming language for programming on GPUs. Discover how to accelerate the performance of your applications beyond the limits of CPU-only programming with simple pragmas. You’ll learn:

• How to profile and optimize your CPU-only applications to identify hot spots for acceleration

• How to use OpenACC directives to GPU accelerate your codebase

• How to optimize data movement between the CPU and GPU accelerator

• Upon completion, you'll be ready to use OpenACC to GPU accelerate CPU-only applications.

2nd day: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++ (10:00-16:00 EEST | 09:00-15:00 CEST)

The CUDA computing platform enables the acceleration of CPU-only applications to run on the world’s fastest massively parallel GPUs. On the 2nd day you experience C/C++ application acceleration by:

• Accelerating CPU-only applications to run their latent parallelism on GPUs

• Utilizing essential CUDA memory management techniques to optimize accelerated applications

• Exposing accelerated application potential for concurrency and exploiting it with CUDA streams

• Leveraging command line and visual profiling to guide and check your work

Upon completion, you’ll be able to accelerate and optimize existing C/C++ CPU-only applications using the most essential CUDA tools and techniques. You’ll understand an iterative style of CUDA development that will allow you to ship accelerated applications fast.

3rd day: Fundamentals of Deep Learning (10:00-16:00 EEST | 09:00-15:00 CEST)

Explore the fundamentals of deep learning by training neural networks and using results to improve performance and capabilities.

During this day, you’ll learn the basics of deep learning by training and deploying neural networks. You’ll learn how to:

• Implement common deep learning workflows, such as image classification and object detection
• Experiment with data, training parameters, network structure, and other strategies to increase performance and capability

Upon completion, you’ll be able to start solving problems on your own with deep learning.

4th day: Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Multi-GPUs (10:00-16:00 EEST | 09:00-15:00 CEST)

The computational requirements of deep neural networks used to enable AI applications like self-driving cars are enormous. A single training cycle can take weeks on a single GPU or even years for larger datasets like those used in self-driving car research. Using multiple GPUs for deep learning can significantly shorten the time required to train lots of data, making solving complex problems with deep learning feasible.

On the last day we will teach you how to use multiple GPUs to train neural networks. You'll learn:

• Approaches to multi-GPUs training

• Algorithmic and engineering challenges to large-scale training

• Key techniques used to overcome the challenges mentioned above

• Upon completion, you'll be able to effectively parallelize training of deep neural networks using TensorFlow.

• Deploy your neural networks to start solving real-world problems

Prerequisites and content level

The content level of the course is broken down as: beginner's - 20%, intermediate - 55%, advanced - 25%, community-targeted content - 0%.

Prerequisites: technical background, basic understanding of machine learning concepts, basic C/C++ or Fortran programming skills.

For further detailed information and registration please visit the event page at the PRACE training portal

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