PRACE Course: Deep Learning and GPU Programming Workshop @ CSC 2020

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OVERVIEW

Learn how to train and deploy a neural network to solve real-world problems, how to generate effective descriptions of content within images and video clips, how to effectively parallelize training of deep neural networks on Multi-GPUs and how to accelerate your applications with CUDA C/C++ and OpenACC.

This 4-days workshop  combines lectures about fundamentals of Deep Learning for Multiple Data Types and Multi-GPUs with lectures about Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++ and OpenACC.

The lectures are interleaved with many hands-on sessions using Jupyter Notebooks. The exercises will be done on a fully configured GPU-accelerated workstation in the cloud.

The workshop is co-organized by CSC, LRZ, IT4Innovations and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). CSC, LRZ as part of GCS and IT4Innovations are all PRACE Training Centres which serve as European hubs and key drivers of advanced high-quality training for researchers working in the computational sciences.

NVIDIA DLI offers hands-on training for developers, data scientists, and researchers looking to solve challenging problems with deep learning.

 All instructors are NVIDIA certified University Ambassadors.


NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute

The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute delivers hands-on training for developers, data scientists, and engineers. The program is designed to help you get started with training, optimizing, and deploying neural networks to solve real-world problems across diverse industries such as self-driving cars, healthcare, online services, and robotics.


TRAINING SETUP

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1st day: Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Multiple Data Types

Lecturer: PD Dr. Durillo Barrionuevo (LRZ)

AGENDA (all times in EEST)

10:00-10:20  Welcome and Intro

10:20-12:00  Introduction to CNNs and Object Segmentation

12:00-13:00  Lunch Break

13:00-14:20  Word Generation with RNNs

14:20-14:30  Coffee Break

14:30  Group Picture

14:30-15:45  Image Captioning by Combining RNNs and CNNs

15:45-16:00  Q&A

SLIDES

DOCUMENTATION

Python 2.7


2nd: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with OpenACC

Lecturer: Dr. Volker Weinberg (LRZ)

AGENDA (all times in EEST)

10:00-10:15  Intro

10:15-12:00  Profiling

12:00-13:00  Lunch Break

13:00-14:20  OpenACC Directives

14:20-14:30  Coffee Break

14:30-15:45  GPU Programming and Data Management

15:45-16:00  Q&A, Final Remarks

SLIDES

DOCUMENTATION


3rd day: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++

Lecturer: Dr. Momme Allalen (LRZ)

AGENDA (all times in EEST)

10:00-10:15  Introduction CUDA C/C++

10:15-12:00  Accelerating Applications with CUDA C/C++

12:00-13:00  Lunch Break

13:00-14:20  Managing Accelerated Application Memory with CUDA unified memory and nsys

14:20-14:30  Coffee Break 

14:30-15:45  Asynchronous Streaming and Visual Profiling for Accelerated  Applications with CUDA C/C++

15:45-16:00  Q&A

SLIDES

CUDA.pdf  

DOCUMENTATION

CUDA TOOLKIT

PRACE Best Practice Guide - GPGPU

NVIDIA Nsight System


4th day: Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Multi-GPUs

Lecturer: Georg Zitzlsberger (IT4Innovations)

AGENDA (all times in EEST)

10:00-10:15  Intro

10:15-12:00  Stochastic Gradient Descent

12:00-13:00  Lunch Break

13:00-14:20  Introduction to Distributed Training

14:20-14:30  Coffee Break

14:30-15:45  Algorithmic Challenges of Distributed SGD

15:45-16:00  Q&A

SLIDES

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NEXT STEPS

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