The third in a series of CISL workshops and tutorials on GPU computing – “Introduction to GPU and Accelerator Architectures” – is at 10 a.m. MST on Thursday, March 3. The presenter will be Brent Leback, a member of the NVIDIA HPC SDK team and a co-creator of CUDA Fortran. He previously served as Compiler Engineering Manager of the Portland Group and continues to participate in compiler development at NVIDIA. He also regularly serves as a GPU Hackathon mentor.

The series of one-hour sessions is for scientists, software engineers, and students in the Earth system sciences to help them prepare to use the extensive GPU-computing capabilities of the new Derecho system. The training is intended for both new and more experienced GPU programmers and requires familiarity with the UNIX shell; Fortran, C/C++, and/or Python; and typical program compilation workflows.

See Introduction to GPU and Accelerator Architectures for more information and to register for the series if you have not already done so.