The summer school is aimed at enriching the skills of researchers, graduate students and teachers with cutting-edge technique and hands-on experience in developing applications for many-core processors with massively parallel computing resources like GPU accelerators.

Summer School Co-Directors: Mateo Valero (BSC and UPC) and Wen-mei Hwu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Organized by:

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (University of Illinois)
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)
HiPEAC Network of Excellence (HiPEAC) 
PUMPS is part of this year PRACE Advanced Training Centre program

The following is a list of some of the topics that will be covered during the course:

• CUDA Algorithmic Optimization Strategies
• Dealing with Sparse and Dynamic data
• Efficiency in Large Data Traversal
• Reducing Output Interference
• Controlling Load Imbalance and Divergence
• Acceleration of Collective Operations
• Dynamic Parallelism and HyperQ
• Debugging and Profiling CUDA Code
• Multi-GPU Execution
• Architecture Trends and Implications
• Introduction to OmpSs and to the Paraver analysis tool
• OmpSs: Leveraging GPU/CUDA Programming
• Hands-on Labs: CUDA Optimizations on Scientific Codes; OmpSs Programming and Tuning

Instructors 

Distinguished Lecturers: Wen-mei Hwu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and David Kirk (NVIDIA Corporation )
Local Organizers: Antonio J. Peña (BSC) and Victor Garcia (BSC and UPC)
Invited Lecturer: Juan Gómez-Luna (Universidad de Córdoba)
BSC / UPC Lecturers: Xavier Martorell and Xavier Teruel
Teaching Assistants: Abdul Dakkak, Carl Pearson, Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, Marc Jorda, Pau Farre, Javier Bueno, Aimar Rodriguez

You cand find the summer school programme here.