PACT'17

PACT'17

The sixth edition of the tutorial was presented at the PACT 2017 conference, which took place at Portland, Oregon, USA during September 9-13, 2017. The tutorial was planned for Saturday September 9th from 1pm to 5pm. In this edition the tutorial was titled "Boosting the performance of hybrid CPU-GPU clusters with rCUDA". The tutorial was presented by Federico Silla and Carlos Reaño.

The agenda for this edition of the tutorial (September 9th 2017) was the following:

13:00 - 13:30 Presentation of remote GPU virtualization techniques and rCUDA basic features

13:30 - 14:00 Practical demonstration about how to install and use rCUDA

14:00 - 14:30 Presentation of rCUDA advanced features

14:30 - 15:00 Guided exercises for the audience using rCUDA in a remote cluster

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00 Guided exercises for the audience using rCUDA in a remote cluster (continued)

16:00 - 17:00 Time for attendees to freely exercise with rCUDA in the remote cluster (a set of exercises is proposed)