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Advanced OpenCL training courses by Acceleware in Aug, Sept & Oct

July 19, 2012 by Tony DeYoung

Acceleware's customized 4-day OpenCL training consists of classroom lectures and several practical hands-on exercises. It is specifically tailored for learning parallel programming in OpenCL on AMD GPUs and APUs.

Attendees should have a background C/C++ (2 or more years).

Upcoming OpenCL Course Dates:

Aug 21, 2012 - Houston, TX
Sep 11, 2012 - Los Angeles, CA
Oct 16, 2012 - Calgary

4-Day Course Syllabus

• Overview of GPU Computing
• OpenCLL Software
• Data-Parallel Architectures and the OpenCL Programming Model
• The OpenCL Memory Model & Work-item Cooperation
• Hands-on-Exercises: Buffer Allocation and Buffer Transfers, Simple Kernels and Local and Constant Memory

Day 2: Advanced GPU Programming and Debugging

• Task Concurrency and Synchronization
• Images and Graphics Interoperability
• Debugging GPU Programs and Numerical Accuracy
• Hands-on-Exercises: Asynchronous Operations, Images and Graphics Interoperability and Debugging

Day 3: Introduction to Optimizations

• Latency and the Execution Model
• Arithmetic Optimizations
• Memory Optimizations
• Hands-on-Exercises: Arithmetic Optimizations and Correcting memory access pattern transfers and local memory bank conflicts

Day 4: Advanced Optimizations and Profiling

• Profiling applications
• Case Study – 3D Convolution or Other Case Study
• Multiple GPUs, Cluster of GPUs
• Hands-on-Exercises: Using the Stream Profiler to optimize a kernel and 3D Convolution – Putting it all together