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XSEDE Workshop March 2020

GPU Programming Using OpenACC

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XSEDE HPC Workshop: OpenACC

March 3

March 3

Northwestern Research Computing is hosting a satellite site for XSEDE GPU Programming with OpenACC workshop on March 3, 2020.

This one-day workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to OpenACC which is commonly used by C and Fortran programmers to develop GPU capable codes. OpenACC has been used with great success to accelerate real applications within very short development periods. The training will be telecast live at Northwestern site and will allow participants to interact with trainers. Attendees need to bring their laptops to follow the hands-on exercises.

To register for the workshop, you must create an account for XSEDE User Portal if you don’t have one already.

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Agenda

Tuesday, March 3, 2020
All times given are Central
10:00 Welcome
10:15 Computing Environment
10:45 Parallel Computing and Accelerators
11:15 Introduction to OpenACC
12:00 Lunch break
1:00 Introduction to OpenACC, con’t
2:45 Using OpenACC with CUDA Libraries
3:00 Advanced OpenACC
3:30 OpenMP 4.0 and Beyond
4:00 Final Notes and Adjourn

Workshop Location

Seeley G. Mudd Library

Seeley G. Mudd Library

The workshop will be held in Mudd Library, Room 2210 located at Northwestern Evanston Campus. 

Address: 2233 Tech Drive, Room 2210 Evanston IL, 60208

Logistics

Parking

The nearest parking to workshop building: 2311 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208 (North Campus Parking Garage, $8/day).

More information about Northwestern campus parking can be found here:
https://www.northwestern.edu/transportation-parking/evanston-parking/parking-map/index.html

Transportation

Public transportation to Northwestern Campus is available. More information can be found here:
https://www.northwestern.edu/transportation-parking/commuter-options/public-transit/index.html

Guest Wireless

Attendees who are not affiliated with the University can connect to Guest-Northwestern wireless network during their visit charge free. Northwestern network also supports eduroam.

Please see the following link for more details:
https://www.it.northwestern.edu/oncampus/guest-wireless/