LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After this course, participants will be able to:¶

• Understand GPU architecture and the differences between GPU and CPU¶

  • Streaming architecture
  • Thread blocks

• Implement the OpenACC and OpenMP Offloading programming models¶

  • Compute constructs
  • Loop constructs
  • Data clauses
  • Hybrid programming

• Implement the HIP programming model¶

  • Programming structure
  • Device calls (thread block organization)
  • Host calls
  • Hybrid programming

• Efficiently handle memory management¶

  • Host-to-device transfers
  • Unified memory

• Apply OpenACC, OpenMP, and HIP Offloading programming knowledge to accelerate examples from science and engineering¶

  • Iterative solvers in science and engineering
  • Computational linear algebra (vector multiplication, vector addition, matrix operations, etc.)