OpenCL Training in Calgary

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Date:	October 16-19, 2012
Location:	Calgary, AB
Contact:	Acceleware 403.249.9099 x 356, services@acceleware.com
Cost:	$3250 USD Early Bird Offer: Register before Sep 25th, 2012 and receive $200 off the registration fee! (enter discount code: AXTEB2012) Your fee includes: Use of a laptop equipped with AMD Fusion APU Manual of all lectures CD copy of lab exercises Certificate of Completion

Tue and Wed: 9:00AM – 5:00PM (incl. 1 hour lunch)

Day 1: Introduction to GPU Programming and GPU Architectures
- Overview of GPU Computing
- Data-Parallel Architectures and the GPU Programming Model
- The GPU 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
- Platform, Devices, and Queues
- Open CL Extensions
- Debugging GPU Programs and Numerical Accuracy
- Hands-on-Exercises: Asynchronous Operations and Debugging
Day 3: Introduction to Optimizations
- Introduction to Optimizations
- Resource Management and Hiding Memory/ALU Latency
- Memory Optimizations
- Hands-on-Exercises: Arithmetic Optimizations, Wavefront/Compute Unit Calculations 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

Space is limited - Please register early to guarantee your spot