OpenMP is one major option how to use GPUs to accelerate/offload computations on today's heterogenous computer systems. This course will give an introduction to the AMD Instinct™ GPU and Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) architectures to lay foundations of how GPUs work and can be used for offloading in OpenMP. New features of recent OpenMP versions and GPUs such as the unified memory programming model will be introduced, which make writing HPC applications much easier for a wide range of GPU programming models. In addition, tools for performance anylsis and optimization will be presented.

This course targets beginners in GPU programming with basic knowledge of parallelization with OpenMP and/or MPI on CPUs. After this course you will have learned the basics to confidently start porting your application from a CPU only system to systems with discrete GPU accelerators or APUs.