Melbourne HPC GPU Computing Workshop and Introduction to MASSIVE

The Multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment (MASSIVE) provides Australian researchers with access to two high performance computers located at Monash University and Australian Synchrotron. To introduce these systems and provide support for Australian and Victorian researchers to make effective use of HPC GPU facilities, MASSIVE is running a two-day HPC GPU computing workshop on 13th-14th of July.

In addition to a range of talks on HPC GPU computing, including presentations by Dr Mark Harris from NVIDIA, the workshop will introduce the MASSIVE architecture and the way researchers can access and make use of the systems. Talks will range from how to undertake GPU programming to domain specific presentations in visualisation, image processing, astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics.

For researchers wanting to have hands on assistance with using MASSIVE, an additional computer lab session is planned after the close of presentations (lunchtime 14th July). In the lab researchers will have the opportunity to undertake tutorials assisted by MASSIVE specialists. 

MASSIVE workshops are open to all Australian researchers.

Event held July 13th-14th 2011: Slides available at:

http://www.massive.org.au/userguide/workshops

  8:45 Registration  
  9:00 Melbourne HPC GPU Workshop Welcome Prof Paul Bonnington
  9:10 – 9:40 MASSIVE Overview and Architecture Dr Wojtek Goscinski & Dr Paul McIntosh
  9:40 – 10:10 Introduction to NVIDIA CUDA, Tesla, and the Fermi Architecture Dr Mark Harris, NVIDIA
  10:10 – 10:40 Introduction to CUDA Programming Dr Mark Harris
NVIDIA
  Tea Break    
  11:00 – 11:30 Introduction to CUDA Programming Dr Mark Harris
NVIDIA
  11:30 – 12:00 Introduction to CUDA programming on HPC Enzo Reyes,
MASSIVE/VPAC
  12:00 – 12:30 Introduction to gSTAR and GPU Applications in Astrophysics Luke Hodkinson, Dr Jarrod Hurley, Swinburne
  Lunch Lunch (Provided) and Australian Synchrotron Tour (~12:45-1:45)  
  2:00-2:30 GPU applications in Image processing Dr Arthur Sakellariou,
CSIRO
  2:30-2:45 Utilizing the Power of Distributed CPU/GPU Architectures Amr Hassan,
Swinburne
  2:45-3:20 CUDA Tools and Libraries Dr Mark Harris
NVIDIA
  Tea Break    
  3:40-4:00 GPU applications in Visualisation Dr Paul McIntosh
MASSIVE/VPAC
  4:00-4:30 Computational Fluid Dynamics using OpenCL: Fundamentals Dr Tomasz Bednarz,
CSIRO
  4:30-5:00 Image segmentation and characterization using GPUs - challenges and progress. Dr Richard Beare,
Monash

 

July 14th 2011

  9:00 – 9:30 Optimizing Performance on NVIDIA GPUs Dr Mark Harris
NVIDIA
  9:30 – 10:00 Optimizing Performance on NVIDIA GPUs Dr Mark Harris
NVIDIA
  10:00 – 10:30 Multi-GPU programming Dr Mark Harris
NVIDIA
  Tea Break    
  10:45 – 11:15 Introduction to OpenCL Programming Dr Tomasz Bednarz,
CSIRO
  11:15 – 11:30 Advanced OpenCL Dmitri Nikulin,
CRC-BID
  11:30 – 11:45 Algorithm Analysis for GPU Computing

Benjamin Barsdell,

Swinburne
  11:45 – 12:00 HPC Tools for benchmarking and optimisation

Phil Ward,

CSIRO 

(MASSIVE/VPAC)
  Lunch Lunch (End of presentations)  
  1:00 – 3:00 Hands on using MASSIVE (fully booked)
Computer Lab @ Monash main campus - limited to 20.

Dr Paul McIntosh,
Enzo Reyes,
Lev Lafayette

MASSIVE/VPAC