[hpc-announce] Call for Participation: PUMPS+AI (ACM*) Summer School 2026

[Antonio J. Peña]

16th Programming and tUning Massively Parallel Systems + Artificial 
Intelligence (ACM*) Summer School (PUMPS+AI)
https://pumps.bsc.es

* PUMPS+AI became an ACM Europe Seasonal School since 2023. This year's 
ACM sponsorship is still to be confirmed.

-- Note this is a fully in-person summer school in wonderful Barcelona 
city! --

On its 16th edition, the Programming and tUning Massively Parallel 
Systems + Artificial Intelligence summer school (PUMPS+AI) offers 
researchers and graduate students a unique opportunity to improve their 
skills with cutting-edge techniques and hands-on experience in 
developing and tuning applications for many-core processors with 
massively parallel computing resources like GPU accelerators, with a 
special focus on AI.

*This year's PUMPS+AI provides an updated program with respect to the 
2025 edition, based on the most recent  5th edition of the textbook 
Programming Massively Parallel Processors*

- PUMPS 2026 Distinguished Lecturer: Wen-mei Hwu (NVIDIA)

The summer school is oriented towards advanced programming and 
optimizations, and thus previous experience in basic GPU programming 
will be considered in the selection process. We will also consider the 
current parallel applications and numerical methods you are familiar 
with, and the specific optimizations you would like to discuss.

Participants will have access to GPU servers and will learn to program 
and optimize applications and AI techniques in languages such as CUDA 
and OmpSs. Teaching Assistants will be available to help with your 
hands-on lab assignments. At the poster session you may show your 
current work and applications you are optimizing. NVIDIA will award the 
best poster presentation.

- Important Dates:
  Applications due: May 3, 2026
  Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2026
  Summer school: July 13-17, 2026

Early application is strongly recommended. You may also be suggested to 
attend an online prerequisite training on basic CUDA programming before 
joining PUMPS+AI.

- Location: Barcelona, Spain

- Complete information, program and registration: http://pumps.bsc.es

PUMPS is organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the Universitat Politècnica 
de Catalunya.

Looking forward to see you at the PUMPS Summer School,

- PUMPS Co-Directors:
   Mateo Valero (BSC/UPC) and Wen-mei Hwu (NVIDIA/UIUC)
- Local Organization Chair:
   Antonio J. Peña (BSC/UPC)

- Contact: pumps at bsc.es