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The BEAST LAB: A Practical Course on Experimental Evaluation of Diverse Modern HPC Architectures and Accelerators
DescriptionGiving students a good understanding of how micro-architectural effects impact achievable performance for given HPC workloads is essential. It enables them to find effective optimization strategies and to reason about sensible approaches towards better efficiency. This paper describes a lab course held in collaboration between LRZ, LMU and TUM. The course was born with a dual motivation in mind: filling a gap in educating students to become HPC experts, as well as understanding the stability and usability of emerging HPC programming models for recent CPU and GPU architectures with the help of students. We describe the course structure used to achieve the goals, resources made available to attract students, and experiences and statistics from running the course now for six semesters. We conclude with an assessment of how successfully the lab course could meet the vision.
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Workshop
TimeMonday, 13 November 20232:30pm - 2:45pm MST
Location607
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