07-25, 09:00–12:00 (US/Eastern), 32-123
Why to wait hours for computations to complete, when it could take only a few seconds? Tired of prototyping code in an interactive, high-level language and rewriting it in a lower-level language to get high-performance code? Unsure about the applicability of differentiable programming? Or simply curious about parallel and GPU computing and automatic differentiation being game changers in physics-based and data-driven modelling.
This workshop covers trendy areas in modern high-performance computing with examples from geoscientific applications. The physical processes governing natural systems' evolution are often mathematically described as systems of differential equations. In addition, the incredible amount of available data relating to these natural systems increases at unprecedented pace. Understanding and predicting the dynamic of the natural systems requires accurate predictive models built upon constraining parameters from differential equation solvers using a data-driven approach, where fast and accurate solutions require numerical implementations to leverage modern parallel hardware.
The goal of this workshop is to offer an interactive hands-on to solve and constrain systems of differential equations in parallel on GPUs using distributed stencil computations on GPUs and recent development of GPU-ready automatic differentiation (AD) capabilities. We plan to focus on conciseness and efficiency using the ParallelStencil.jl, ImplicitGlobalGrid.jl and Enzyme.jl Julia packages as tools.
The workshop consists of 2 parts:
1. You will learn about parallel and distributed GPU computing and iterative solvers.
2. You will implement a PDE constrained optimisation on GPUs.
By the end of this workshop, you will:
- Have a GPU PDE solver that predicts ice flow and an AD-powered inverse solver to calibrate the forward model;
- Have a Julia code that achieves similar performance to legacy C, CUDA, MPI code or outperforms it;
- Know how the Julia language solves the "two-language problem";
- Be able to leverage the computing power of modern GPU accelerated servers and supercomputers.
We look forward to having you on board and will make sure to foster exchange of ideas and knowledge to provide an as inclusive as possible event.
Workshop GitHub repo: https://github.com/PTsolvers/gpu-workshop-JuliaCon23
Co-authors: Ivan Utkin¹ ², Samuel Omlin¹
¹ ETH Zurich | ² Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
GPU computing and geo-HPC. Researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Computational Scientist and Responsible for Julia computing at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, ETH Zurich
Ivan Utkin's scientific record revolves around numerical modelling of natural processes in geosciences with a strong emphasis on resolving coupled multi-physics interactions. Specifically, the record includes studies of fluid flows in porous rocks, including compaction-driven flow focussing, ground displacement due to the elastic response of rocks to the fluid pressure, and the influence of chemical interactions between fluid and rocks on the flow dynamics and observed chemical composition in rocks. A particular focus of Utkin's research is the development of numerical techniques to resolve processes in high resolution using massively parallel computing architectures such as graphics processing units (GPUs).