ACCESS HPC Workshop: GPU Programming Using OpenACC

April 9, 2025

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to present an OpenACC GPU programming workshop.

OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has been used with great success to accelerate real applications within very short development periods. This workshop assumes knowledge of either C or Fortran programming. It will have a hands-on component using the Bridges-2 computing platform at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

This will be an IN PERSON event hosted by various satellite sites, there WILL NOT be a direct to desktop option for this event.  The satellite site list(subject to change) is as follows:

  • University of Arizona
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Delaware
  • Georgia State University
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • University of Houston – Clear Lake
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory – NASA (Not Open To Public)
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  • University of South Carolina Research Computing
  • Texas Tech University
  • West Virginia University

Registration

Interested applicants must first have an ACCESS ID.  If you do not have an ACCESS ID, please visit this page to create one:

ACCESS USER REGISTRATION

Once you have an ACCESS ID, please complete one of the following registration pages by Monday, April 7 at Noon Eastern time:

 Registration Pages Available Soon

Questions

Please address any questions to Tom Maiden at tmaiden@psc.edu

Tentative Agenda

The tentative agenda, subject to change, is below. It is designed  to be time-zone friendly.

Wednesday, April 9

All times given are Eastern time

11:00 Welcome
11:15 Computing Environment
11:45 Parallel Computing and Accelerators
12:15 Introduction to OpenACC
1:00 Lunch break
2:00 Introduction to OpenACC, con’t, and exercises
4:00 Using OpenACC with CUDA Libraries
4:15 Advanced OpenACC
4:45 OpenMP and GPUs
5:00 Final Notes and Adjourn