Materials for workshop on GPU computation for statistics, data science, machine learning applications. Please see gpu.html to be guided through the materials.

Session 1: Monday, Feb. 1, 4:10 - 5:30 pm in Evans 1011

• Introduction to GPU resources that are available (Savio, Amazon EC2)
• Basics of using GPUs with C, R, and Python

Session 2: Monday Feb. 8, 4:10 - 5:30 pm in Evans 1011

• Use of packages such as Caffe, TensorFlow, etc. that use GPUs for back-end computation
• Discussion of use cases by those using GPUs currently
• Optimizing GPU usage

The workshop will be an introduction to using GPUs and will assume no previous knowledge of GPUs. I will assume familiarity with either R, C, or Python and at least modest familiarity with operating in a UNIX environment. The goal is to get folks up to speed on using GPUs, and we'll cover basic techniques for using a GPU with R, C, and Python.