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@bsc.es