{"id":19415,"date":"2025-03-20T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/?p=19415"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:17:10","slug":"euroccgreece-hpc-training-series-course-12-introduction-to-accelerators-gpus-cuda-on-april-4th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/2025\/03\/20\/euroccgreece-hpc-training-series-course-12-introduction-to-accelerators-gpus-cuda-on-april-4th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroCC@Greece HPC Training Series &#8211; Course 12 \u201cIntroduction to Accelerators: GPUs \/ CUDA\u201d, on April 4th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EuroCC@Greece announced the 12th Course of the HPC Training Series with subject \u201cIntroduction to Accelerators: GPUs \/ CUDA\u201d, that took place online on April 4th, 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Presentation language<\/strong>: Greek<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Audience<\/strong>: This course was ideal for individuals interested in learning GPU programming with CUDA. It was suitable for students, researchers, engineers and programmers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Online via Zoom<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Description<\/strong>: This course covered topics on GPU architecture, programming and their advantages for parallel computing, exploring how GPUs accelerate complex computations. It provided an overview of major GPU software suites, with a particular focus on CUDA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Objectives<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the end of this course, participants were able to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Understand the architecture of GPU accelerators and the fundamental differences between GPUs and CPUs.<\/li>\n<li>Identify major GPU software suites available, with a focus on CUDA.<\/li>\n<li>Utilize CUDA for basic GPU programming, including controlling data movement between CPUs and GPUs.<\/li>\n<li>Optimize computational kernels for efficient execution on GPU hardware.<\/li>\n<li>Use cuBLAS, cuSPARSE, and CUDA Graphs for efficient GPU computation.<\/li>\n<li>Apply cuSOLVER, cuFFT, cuRAND, and AmgX for specialized tasks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Prerequisites<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Some prior experience with C\/C++<\/li>\n<li>No prior knowledge of CUDA was necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The course\u2019s presentation material can be found <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.grnet.gr\/event\/171\/timetable\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The course\u2019s recorded material can be found <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLDXx3HYfIJMonroyqPdGdYazkPGb6qBoH&amp;si=OOGCAnOWgQL8buMt\">here<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EuroCC@Greece announced the 12th Course of the HPC Training Series with subject \u201cIntroduction to Accelerators: GPUs \/ CUDA\u201d, that took place online on April 4th, 2025. Presentation language: Greek Audience: This course was ideal for individuals interested in learning GPU programming with CUDA. It was suitable for students, researchers, engineers and programmers. 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