AMD is offering an introductory tutorial to OpenCL™ that will be held alongside the 2010 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing (SAAHPC’10). The tutorial is a “programmer’s introduction” which covers the ideas behind OpenCL™ and their translation to source code.

Syllabus:

• ATI Stream Computing
  • Hardware Overview
  • Software Ecosystem Overview
• Heterogeneous Computing and the Origins of OpenCL™
• OpenCL™ Overview
  • Platform Model
  • Execution Model
  • Memory Model
  • Programming Model
• Exploring the Spec with Code: Embarrassingly Parallel
  • Vector Addition: The Basic Platform Layer
  • Sorting: Kernel Programming Language
• Exploring the Spec with Code: Interacting Work-Items
  • Optimizing Sort: Work-Groups and the Memory Model
• A Survey of the Rest of OpenCL™
  • Runtime Layer, Event Model, C++ Wrapper API
• Simulating the Ocean

More information can be found here.