Dear VSC users and friends,
Compute Units Driving Acceleration?
Cores Unleashed for Data Analysis?
Complex Unification of Distributed Algorithms?
If you don't know what CUDA is about then this course is for you:
CUDA 4 Dummies
29.-30.10.2024, 09:00-17:00 CET (Zoom)
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CUDA-2024-10
CUDA is the standard API for code development targeting NVIDIA GPUs and
a number of impressive examples have already been given in diverse areas
from particle physics to computational biology. CUDA allows simple
extensions of standard C/C++/Fortran code with GPU-specific functions.
In this way thousands of cores available on the GPU can be leveraged to
work in parallel and thus carry out significant fractions of the
computational workload on the device rather than the CPU. There is also
a vast set of auxiliary tools available to the developer including
libraries, code templates, building blocks, analysis tools,
developmental frameworks, and in general a vivid community making up the
CUDA Developer Zone.
It is often for this multifaceted support environment that the
interested beginner is feeling overwhelmed and unsettled about which
particular first steps should best be taken to gain a straightforward
introduction into the subject. For exactly this reason the present
course is offering a systematic step-by-step introduction into GPU
computing from the perspective of the newcomer.
Basic design principles will be established, central programming
techniques acquired and a number of state-of-the-art workflows examined
that efficiently employ the GPU and are frequently used in scientific
computing.
This course provides lectures, demos, and hands-on labs.
Course description and registration:
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/CUDA-2024-10
Hurry up to grab your seat, registration closes on Friday, 25 October.
All VSC training events:
https://vsc.ac.at/training
Best regards,
VSC training team
Dear VSC users and friends,
just this week it was announced that the founding fathers of neural
networks & deep learning have been awarded this year's Nobel prize in
physics, since the methods they developed are absolutely relevant in
furthering science and innovation. In today's academic and technology
driven world it has become essential to understand the basic concepts of
deep learning.
We are giving anyone who is interested (and quick enough to register)
the chance to do so for free:
Introduction to Deep Learning
21.-22.10.2024, 09:00-16:30 CEST (Zoom)
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-10
Deep Learning (DL) has enjoyed a surge in popularity during the last
decade. This is mainly owed to the fact that DL is computationally quite
expensive and needs vast amounts of data to train useful models. Both,
computational resources and large datasets have become more readily
available in recent years, leading to breakthroughs in DL applications.
This course aims at interested participants from all domains, who have
not yet jumped on the bandwagon of the DL trend.
The course will cover the basic principles of fully connected neural
networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for computer vision,
recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for text or speech recognition,
transfer learning to leverage pretrained models, and touch on large
language models (LLMs) which have become all the rage in the past year.
Course description and registration:
https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-10
Hurry up to grab your seat, registration closes on Wednesday, 16
October.
All VSC training events:
https://vsc.ac.at/training
Best regards,
VSC training team
