Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with OpenACC

Contribution List

1. Welcome and Introduction

11/21/23, 9:00 AM

• Meet the instructor.
• Create an account at courses.nvidia.com/join

2. Introduction to Parallel Programming

11/21/23, 9:15 AM

Learn about parallelism in a conceptual way, as well as how to express it with OpenACC. Topics that will be covered are as follows:

• Introduction to parallelism
• The goals of OpenACC
• Basic parallelization of code using OpenACC

3. Profiling with OpenACC

11/21/23, 10:15 AM

Learn how to build and compile an OpenACC code, the importance of profiling, and how to use the NVIDIA Nsight™ Systems profiler. Topics that will be covered are as follows:

• Compiling sequential and OpenACC code
• The importance of code profiling
• Profiling sequential and OpenACC multicore code
• Technical introduction to the code used in introductory modules

4. Introduction to OpenACC Directives

11/21/23, 11:50 AM

Learn how to parallelize your code with OpenACC directives and understand the differences between parallel, kernel, and loop directives. Topics that will be covered are as follows:

• The Parallel directive
• The Kernels directive
• The Loop directive

7. GPU Programming with OpenACC

11/21/23, 12:50 PM

Learn about the differences between GPUs and multicore CPUs, and manage memory with CUDA Unified Memory. Topics that will be covered are as follows:

• Definition of a GPU
• Basic OpenACC data management
• CUDA Unified Memory
• Profiling GPU applications

8. Data Management with OpenACC

11/21/23, 1:55 PM

Learn how to explicitly manage data movement with OpenACC data directives to reduce data transfers. Topics that will be covered are as follows:

• OpenACC data directive/clauses
• OpenACC structured data region
• OpenACC unstructured data region
• OpenACC update directive
• Data management with C/C++ Structs/Classes

9. Loop Optimizations with OpenACC

11/21/23, 2:55 PM

Understand the various levels of parallelism on a GPU and learn ways to extract more parallelism with OpenACC by optimizing loops in your code. Topics that will be covered are as follows:

• Seq/Auto clause
• Independent clause
• Reduction clause
• Collapse clause
• Tile clause
• Gang, Worker, Vector

10. Final Review

11/21/23, 3:55 PM

• Review key learnings and answer questions.
• Complete the assessment and earn a certificate.
• Complete the workshop survey.