General Purpose GPU Programming, Short Course | Cranfield University | Cranfield, United Kingdom
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General Purpose GPU Programming

3 days
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1000 GBP/full
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About

The General Purpose GPU Programming course offered by Cranfield University will provide an introduction to programming GPUs for general computing tasks. 

Overview

What you will study

GPUs are a key element of the current computing landscape; they are capable of exceptional performance for a substantial range of applications, hence they are found in most contemporary supercomputers. Harnessing their power requires using appropriate techniques, which are the main topic of this General Purpose GPU Programming course offered by Cranfield University .

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

  • General Purpose GPU
  • The GPU architecture
  • CUDA threading model (threads, blocks, warps)
  • CUDA synchronisation (intra-block and host-device)
  • CUDA memory model (registers, global, and shared memory) and memory management API
  • Performance considerations (memory coalescing, shared memory bank conflicts, warp divergence)
  • Running the Hello World example (kernel dispatch, CPU-GPU data transfers)
  • Examples from linear algebra, outlining:  2D thread blocks, reduction operations, shared memory, synchronisation, coalescing
  • GPU Performance issues (Compute Capability, device occupancy, peak performance, performance measurement)
  • Development Tools (Nsight, Visual profiler, Occupancy calculator, cuda-memcheck)
  • GPU Libraries (Thrust, CUBLAS, CUSPARSE, CUFFT)
  • Advanced Optimisation techniques

Key information

Duration

  • Full-time
    • 3 days

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

  • Anyone who needs to develop new applications or port existing ones on GPU -enabled computing resources should attend.

Tuition Fee

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  • International

    1000 GBP/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 1000 GBP for the full programme during 3 days.
  • National

    1000 GBP/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 1000 GBP for the full programme during 3 days.

Living costs for Cranfield

700 - 1300 GBP /month
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