PUMPS 2016 - Fourth day

With today's lectures and practical session ended the CUDA part of the summer school. In the lectures case study, heterogeneous computing algorithms and architecture trends and implications were covered. On the fifth day the participants will get their hands dirty with OmpSs programming model.

Lecture slides:

• Lecture 10
• Lecture 11
• Lecture 12

Yesterday's poster session winner was also announced. Winning poster was "Chunking SVM Training Implementation in CUDA" and the presenter was awarded with Tesla K40 graphics card.

The winner of poster presentations

Between the lectures I was able to visit the supercomputer center near our summer school lecture hall.

Supercomputer specs:

• Name: MareNostrum III (2013)
• Ranking (in the top 500 supercomputers list): 106
• Peak performance: 1.1 Petaflops
• Main memory: 115.5 TB
• Disk storage: 2 PB
• Operating system: Linux SuSe distribution

MareNostrum has 52 racks and takes up a space of 120m2