Vortex tutorials at MICRO-56 (29th October 2023)

Description:

Vortex is an open-source hardware and software project to support GPGPU based on RISC-V ISA extensions. Currently, Vortex supports OpenCL/CUDA and it runs on FPGA. The Vortex platform is highly customizable and scalable with a complete open-source compiler, driver and runtime software stack to enable research in GPU architectures. In this tutorial, we will cover Vortex's hardware, software, applications, and provide hands-on exercises.

Date: 2023-10-29 (1:00PM - 5:00PM EDT)

Organizers:

Blaise Tine, Hyesoon Kim, Jeff Young, Liam Cooper, Chihyo (Mark) Ahn, Shinnung Jeong

Registration

How to register: MICRO-56 registration link

Tentative Tutorial Schedule

Time Contents Presenter slides
1:00-1:30 Intro and GPU background Hyesoon Kim slides 1 slides 2
1:30-2:00 Vortex Microarchitecture Blaise Tine slides
2:00-3:00 Vortex Code Review Blaise Tine slides
3:00-3:30 Q&A and Break
3:30-3:50 Vortex Software Stack Shinnung Jeong slides
3:50-4:10 CupBop/Running OpenCL/CUDA on Vortex Chihyo Ahn slides
4:10-4:20 Vortex FPGA demo & Tutorial Assignments Liam Cooper slides
4:20-4:40 Discussions for Academic Usages with Vortex Hyesoon Kim slides
4:30-5:00 Hands-on Exercises

Tutorial Assignments

Solutions

Solutions are available for assignment 3 and assignment 5.

Mailing list

For tutorial info please join vortex-dev@lists.gatech.edu

VM Images

VM Access (recommended): please see the VM README to get instructions for downloading and running the Vortex tools using Vagrant and VirtualBox.

Remote Access

If you are not able to download and use the VM, the alternative is to use the Open OnDemand terminal interface hosted by the CRNCH Rogues Gallery. Instructions can be found here.

System Set Up Instructions

If you would like to set up Vortex on your own system instead of using a VM or remote access, instructions can be found here and pre-built toolchain details here; they are for Linux (Ubuntu 18.04) systems only.

Relevant Repos