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[VSC Training News] CUDA 4 Dummies, 29-30 October 2024
by VSC Training Newsletter 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

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

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[VSC Training News] Introduction to Deep Learning, 21-22 October 2024
by VSC Training Newsletter 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

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

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