Seminars of Innovation and Research in Informatics

The Technical University of Darmstadt announces the 2021 edition of INSPIRED, the International Project Week for Interdisciplinary Research-Oriented Digital Learning. This is an initiative of TU Darmstadt in the framework of the Euroepan University "UNITE!(open in new window)", in which UPC also participates. The 2021 program will be conducted in collaboration with the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) to develop the concept of " Extraterrestrial Greenhouse: Diving into an Multidisciplinary Toolbox to Challenge Gravity and Ensure Sustainability in Offshore Travel and Space Exploration". Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's edition will be entirely ONLINE. *Warning:* Until January 31, 2021 on the INSPIRED website. A letter of motivation and academic transcripts are required. UPC students are UNITE students (full scholarship)

All human activities have implications on our society. Professional exercise in engineering, being a researcher or running innovation projects imply making decisions that are not exclusively technical, they involve ethical considerations. Theoretical sessions are complemented with numerous examples and cases.

Friday: 11:00-13:00

The objective of this course is to learn how to use systems with more than one memory subsystem. We will see the different options on using Intel's KNL memory subsystems and systems equipped with Intel's Optane technology.

09:00-17:30

Lambda Days is a place where academia meets industry, where research and practical application collide. 2021 Lambda Days goes virtual but also becomes a fundraiser. Once again we join forces with Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) and Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPiE) so that for four days you can be at the centre of the functional programming world. Find out what is possible with functional programming - explore the latest in battle-tested Scala, Erlang and Haskell, experience the energy F# and Elixir bring to the table, connect with the innovators working with Elm, Luna and Ocaml, see what comes up next!

12:00 to 18:00

I have completed the course online through coursera.Here is the certificate https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/33VT29CE29MT and here are my solutions https://github.com/h0lyalg0rithm/fundamentals-intel-parallelism

This course will give you hands-on FPGA design experience that uses all the concepts and skills you have developed up to now. You will need to purchase a DE10-Lite development kit. You will setup and test the MAX10 DE10-Lite board using the FPGA design tool Quartus Prime and the System Builder. You will: Design and test a Binary Coded Decimal Adder. Design and test a PWM Circuit, with verification by simulation. Design and test an ADC circuit, using Quartus Prime built-in tools to verify your circuit design. Create hardware for the NIOS II soft processor, including many interfaces, using Qsys (Platform Designer). Instantiate this design into a top-level DE10-Lite HDL file. Compile your completed hardware using Quartus Prime. Enhance and test a working design, using most aspects of the Quartus Prime Design Flow and the NIOS II Software Build Tools (SBT) for Eclipse. Create software for the NIOS II soft processor, including many interfaces, using Qsys (Platform Designer) and the SBT. Compile your completed software using the SBT. Use Quartus Prime to program both the FPGA hardware configuration and software code in you DE10-Lite development kit. Record all your observations in a lab notebook pdf. Submit your project files and lab notebook for grading. This course consists of 4 modules, approximately 1 per week for 4 weeks. Each module will include an hour or less of video lectures, plus reading assignments, discussion prompts, and project assignment that involves creating hardware and/or software in the FPGA.

The course brings together key information technologies used in manipulating, storing and analysing data including: basic tools for statistical analysis, techniques for parallel processing, tools for access to unstructured data, and storage solutions.

09:30-18:00

Embedded Software and Hardware Architecture

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5361, part of CU Boulder's Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Hardware Description Languages for Logic Design enables students to design circuits using VHDL and Verilog, the most widespread design methods for FPGA Design. It uses natural learning processes to make learning the languages easy. Simple first examples are presented, then language rules and syntax, followed by more complex examples, and then finally use of test bench simulations to verify correctness of the designs. Lecture presentations are reinforced by many programming example problems so that skill in the languages is obtained. After completing this course, each student will have fundamental proficiency in both languages, and more importantly enough knowledge to continue learning and gaining expertise in Verilog and VHDL on their own.

This course will introduce you to the multiple forms of parallelism found in modern Intel architecture processors and teach you the programming frameworks for handling this parallelism in applications. You will get access to a cluster of modern manycore processors (Intel Xeon Phi architecture) for experiments with graded programming exercises. This course can apply to various HPC and datacenter workloads and framework including artificial intelligence (AI). You will learn how to handle data parallelism with vector instructions, task parallelism in shared memory with threads, parallelism in distributed memory with message passing, and memory architecture parallelism with optimized data containers. This knowledge will help you to accelerate computational applications by orders of magnitude, all the while keeping your code portable and future-proof.

Create a Nios II softcore processor hardware design using the Altera development flow Understand the benefits and steps of implementation of a custom instruction in the Nios II soft processor. List the types of IP available for FPGAs Use simulation with ModelSim to verify an FPGA Design

This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5360, part of CU Boulder?s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Programmable Logic has become more and more common as a core technology used to build electronic systems. By integrating soft-core or hardcore processors, these devices have become complete systems on a chip, steadily displacing general purpose processors and ASICs. In particular, high performance systems are now almost always implemented with FPGAs. This course will give you the foundation for FPGA design in Embedded Systems along with practical design skills. You will learn what an FPGA is and how this technology was developed, how to select the best FPGA architecture for a given application, how to use state of the art software tools for FPGA development, and solve critical digital design problems using FPGAs. You use FPGA development tools to complete several example designs, including a custom processor. If you are thinking of a career in Electronics Design or an engineer looking at a career change, this is a great course to enhance your career opportunities.

El curso enseña a programar mediante cuda en multigpus y solapando la transferencia de datos y el computo de ellos en las diversas gpus mediante streams.

Be careful: Places limited! An introduction to FPGA and Zynq technology will be covered including the PYNQ framework, along with some hands-on tutorials and examples on local hardware (provided by the Xilinx University Program to each attendee). The Xilinx Vitis software development environment for designing FPGA accelerators will be introduced. Vitis supports OpenCL, C and C++. RTL design flows are also supported for experienced hardware developers. Each of these flows will be discussed along with the open-source Xilinx Runtime Library and Vitis open-source accelerated libraries. Participants will devise and build their own custom accelerators targeting Alveo and AWS F1 instances. Students can follow the guidance of the instructors to build custom designs from available open source libraries or to create their own custom accelerator design. The school will also include invited presentations from speakers at ETH and Xilinx on relevant topics, including an overview of the XACC program and the XACC at ETH Zurich.

9-18h

This year bitsxlaMarató, a hackathon for contributing to La Marató de TV3, a public Catalan charity effort, is organised by the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB), Hackers@upc (organisers of HackUPC) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC), which come together to fight COVID-19. After a first edition focused on rare diseases, we are joining forces to stop the effects of COVID-19. Full of creativity, health and technology, where teachers, researchers and any professional from the fields of health and technology (but also from other areas!) will work as a team, for 3 days in a row, online. Together, they will develop and look for solutions to face all the challenges posed by COVID-19. This Marathon concerns everyone! Do not even think about missing it! The Hackathon will include training talks that are a must to attend! Besides, we hope to have very interesting guided activities! During the last day of the Hackathon, the teams will make the presentations and demonstrations of the solutions as well as proposals for solutions obtained to the challenges set out the first day. Now listen up! There will be (symbolic) prizes! In addition, a prize for the best project as well!, even though all the solutions and donations for the TV3 Marathon will be prizes by themselves for the millions of people affected! All of them will be grateful for it!

Friday (17-21:00h), Saturday (9-22h), Sunday (9-17h)

This hackathon targets application developers that are interested in investigating the impact of novel SVE extensions in their HPC applications.

The RISC-V Summit is the annual conference organised by the RISC-V Foundation, featuring 3 days of keynotes, technical talks and tutorials in addition to networking opportunities. In this year's event which will take place online, there are 3 speakers from UPC/BSC: Leonidas Kosmidis, Roger Espasa, Jaume Abella. Registration is free for students, using the UPC email address to obtain the "All Access Pass-Student" ticket from https://tmt.knect365.com/risc-v-summit/plan-your-visit/

18:00-2:00

Typed functional programming languages allow for the rapid development of robust programs. This course explores some of the more advanced language features of Haskell, a state­ of­ the­ art functional programming language, together with some of its theoretical background. The course aims to teach not only some of the more recent Haskell features, such GADTs or type families, but also the underlying theory. Besides the lectures, there are numerous supervised lab sessions to help you come to grips with the material covered in class. Advanced Functional Programming logo We expect students to have a basic familiarity with Haskell already. You should be able to write recursive functions over algebraic data types, such as lists and trees. There is a great deal of online material freely available that covers this material. From these basics, we aim to cover several more advanced topics, including monads, applicative functors, GADTs, (typed) lambda calculus, and generic programming. Each day we aim to cover a variety of topics in the lectures, mixing both practical programming advice and theoretical foundations. The supervised daily lab sessions offer students the opportunity to practice the material and discuss their problems with our Haskell experts.

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