GPU Day 2023

ASU Research Computing maintains an institutionally-supported advanced computing system that enables ASU researchers to pursue large-scale discovery. The increased speed and scale of these resources have made this processing power more accessible and easy to use.

In April 2023, Research Computing held a one-day, in-person GPU Day open to all students, staff, and faculty across all disciplines. The purpose of GPU Day was to educate students, staff, and faculty on how to use graphics processing units (GPUs) on the new Sol supercomputer and to showcase the important applications of these powerful resources.

We welcome your feedback and suggestions on what you would like to see next year (rtshelp@asu.edu) and invite you to join us at GPU Day in 2024! 

Materials

9:30 - 10:00 AM Kickoff and Town Hall: Douglas Jennewein, Senior Director, Research Computing. Slides.

10:00 - 11:30 AM Researcher Showcase and Q&A. Slides from Banu Ozkan on “Understanding Protein Evolution through Structural Dynamics“, Chitta Baral and Mihir Parmar on "Instruction Tuning for Efficient Natural Language Processing (NLP)", Jianming Liang on “Annotation-Efficient Deep Learning for Computer-Aided Diagnosis“, and Matthew Sample and Michael Matthies on "Harnessing Parallelized GPU Computations for DNA Nanostructure Conformational Analysis".

12:30 - 1:30 PM Beginner's Guide to Sol: Rebecca Belshe, Research Engagement. Slides.

1:30 - 1:45 PM GPU Accelerated Software on Sol. Slides.

1:45 – 2:15 PM Resources for GPU Acceleration: Gil Speyer and Jason Yalim, Computational Research Accelerator. Slides.

2:30 - 3:30 PM Four Ways to GPU Computing: Zoe Ryan, NVIDIA. Slides.

3:30 – 4:30 PM Advanced Research Acceleration with GPUs: Gil Speyer, Director, Computational Research Accelerator. Slides.