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title = "PUMPS+AI 2019 Summer School"
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date = 2019-06-26T00:00:00
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It's my privilege to attend [PUMPS+AI 2019](https://pumps.bsc.es/2019/front-page-content) summer school in Barcelona!
The summer school was stared by my advisor, Professor Wen-mei Hwu and David Kirk (formerly of Nvidia).


## Monday

The first day of PUMPS, we mentored Pavel Eichler and Jakub Klinkovsky on GPU acceleration for a lattice-boltzmann-method-based computational fluid dynamics solver.
Mert Hidayetoglu, Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, and I helped them apply some binning and scatter-to-gather transformations for a key coordinate-transformation step of their code.

## Tuesday - Friday

The next three days consisted of morning lectures and afternoon hands-on labs for the students.
I was mostly responsible for maing the sure the students could use [rai](github.com/rai-project/rai) to do their [labs](github.com/illinois-impact/gpu-algorithms-labs), and I also TAed the labs:

* Scatter/Gather
* Binning
* Basic Convolution
* Tiled Convolution

## Saturday

The final day has the Barcelona Supercomputing Center teaching the students about OmpSs, a pragma-based parallel runtime.