Overview

This course will be provided as ONLINE course (using Microsoft Teams).

This course will be a deep dive in the CDNA (AMD GPU) architecture and ecosystem. Participants will also get an overview of the HIP software.

Gained Skills

After this course, participants will

have gained knowledge about software enablement on AMD GPU using HIP, and
be able to port their applications from CUDA to HIP.

Program

Program of day 1

09:45 - 10:00 Login and Microsoft Teams setup

10:00 - 13:00 Training

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:00 Training

The sessions will be intertwined with short 10-15 minutes breaks.

Topics

AMD GPU

GCN/CDNA Overview
Memory Hierarchy
HIP GPU Compute Terminology
Compute Units

HIP

Introduction to HIP
Core HIP API
Memory Management in HIP
Asynchronous Computing with HIP
Tips & Tricks

ROCm

Introduction to ROCm
GPUFORT: Porting CUDA & OpenACC codes to HIP
ROCm Libraries
Multi-GPU RCCL/MPI with ROCm

Program of day 2

10:00 - 14:00 Hands-on sessions

Topics of the hands-on sessions

ROCm Tools introduction
CUDA-To-HIP Example code porting
OpenACC2HIP Example code porting

Prerequisites

Some knowledge in GPU programming, e.g., CUDA.

See also the suggested prereading below.

Language

The course language is English.

Teachers

Dominic E. Charrier (AMD), Adil Lashab (AMD), Mazda Sabony (AMD)

Suggested Prereading

Resources

ROCm platform: with instructions for installing from Debian/CentOS/RHEL binary repositories. It also has links to source repositories for all components, including HIP.
HIP porting guide
ROCm/HIP libraries
ROC-profiler: Collects application traces and performance counters. The trace timeline can be visualized with chrome://tracing .
AMD GPU ISA docs and more

Public videos

Registration

The course is full, registration is closed.

Fee

This course is free of charge.

Organization

PRACE PATC and bwHPC-C5

HLRS is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is one of the six PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs) that started in Feb. 2012.
HLRS is also member of the Baden-Württemberg initiative bwHPC-C5.
This course is provided within the framework of the bwHPC-C5 user Support.
This course is not part of the PATC curriculum and is not sponsored by the PATC program.

EXCELLERAT

This workshop is part of the collaboration between AMD and the Horizon-2020 Centre of Excellence EXCELLERAT. AMD is an EXCELLERAT Interest Group. See also the EXCELLERAT Service Portal for more information.