Name: First INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC09 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) I 12-16 October 2009
Start: 2009-10-11T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2009-10-17T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Bertinoro

First INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC09 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) I 12-16 October 2009

from Sunday, 11 October 2009 (16:00) to Saturday, 17 October 2009 (15:00)

Monday, 5 October 2009
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Friday, 9 October 2009
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Sunday, 11 October 2009

16:00 Registration and Welcome

16:00 - 20:30

20:30 Welcome Dinner
Welcome Dinner
20:30 - 20:45

Monday, 12 October 2009
08:30 Session 1
08:30 - 17:30
Contributions

08:30 Welcome and Opening of the School - Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

09:00 Introduction/Setting the scene for why efficient use of modern architectures is important - Sverre Jarp (CERN)

09:50 Review of modern CPU architectures (The 7 dimensions of performance) - Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:00 Designing Architectures and Frameworks for HEP - Pere Mato (CERN)

11:50 Designing Architectures and Frameworks for HEP - Pere Mato (CERN)

14:15 Understanding performance tuning - Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

15:00 Exercises - Andrzej Nowak (CERN) Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Sverre Jarp (CERN)

15:45 Exercises - Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

16:45 Exercises - Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Pere Mato (CERN)
19:00 Evening Lecture: "High throughput data trasmission through network links" - Domenico Galli (BO)
Evening Lecture: "High throughput data trasmission through network links"
- Domenico Galli (BO)
19:00 - 20:00
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 20:30
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
08:30 Session 2
08:30 - 19:00
Contributions

08:30 Memory management and use - Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University)

09:20 Memory management and use - Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University)

10:30 Data structures - P. Calafiura (LBNL)

11:15 Data structures - P. Calafiura (LBNL)

14:30 Software physical design - Pere Mato (CERN)

15:15 Exercises - Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University) Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

16:15 Exercises - Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Pere Mato (CERN)

17:00 Exercises - Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Pere Mato (CERN)
19:00 Evening Lecture: "Getting it all with C++: Abstraction, Reusability, Performance and Future-Safety" - Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)
Evening Lecture: "Getting it all with C++: Abstraction, Reusability, Performance and Future-Safety"
- Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)
19:00 - 20:00
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 20:30
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
08:30 Session 3
08:30 - 16:30
Contributions

08:30 Basic C++ performance issues - Sebastien Binet (LAL - IN2P3)

09:20 Basic C++ performance issues - Sebastien Binet (LAL - IN2P3)

10:10 Compiler Optimization including efficient programming with SIMD (SSE) instructions - Andrzej Nowak (CERN) Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:15 Building the software - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

12:05 Building the software - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

14:30 Exercises on Memory Management - Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University) Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

15:20 Exercises - Alfio Lazzaro (CERN) Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)
16:30 Tour to Ravenna
Tour to Ravenna
16:30 - 20:00

20:30 Social dinner (Ravenna)
Social dinner (Ravenna)
20:30 - 20:30
Thursday, 15 October 2009
08:30 Session 4
08:30 - 17:45
Contributions

08:30 Introduction to multithreading/multiprocessing methodology and vocabulary - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

09:20 Introduction to OpenMP - Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)

10:10 Parallel Programming using std::thread - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

11:15 Support tools for multithreading - Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

12:05 Introduction to MPI - Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)

14:30 Parallel Programming exercises using OpenMP and MPI - Alfio Lazzaro (CERN) Sverre Jarp (CERN)

15:15 Parallel Programming exercises using OpenMP and MPI - Alfio Lazzaro (MI) Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

16:15 Exercises using std::thread - Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

17:00 Exercises - Andrzej Nowak (CERN) Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Sverre Jarp (CERN)
19:00 Evening Lecture: Multicores, GPUs, FPGAs and custom processors for scientific computing: a delicate tradeoff" - Raffaele Tripiccione (FE)
Evening Lecture: Multicores, GPUs, FPGAs and custom processors for scientific computing: a delicate tradeoff"
- Raffaele Tripiccione (FE)
19:00 - 20:00
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 20:30
Friday, 16 October 2009
08:30 Session 5
08:30 - 17:45
Contributions

08:30 Aspects of I/O - A. Hanushevsky (SLAC)

09:20 Aspects of I/O - A. Hanushevsky (SLAC)

10:10 Aspects of I/O - A. Hanushevsky (SLAC)

11:15 Network I/O and latency - Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

12:05 Network I/O and latency - Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

14:30 Exercises - A. Hanushevsky (S) Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

15:15 Exercises - Andrew Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Lab) Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

16:15 Exercises - Andrew Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Lab) Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

17:00 Exercises - Andrew Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Lab) Davide Salomoni (CNAF) Fabrizio Furano (CERN)
19:00 Evening lecture: Virtualization, Grid, Cloud: Integration Paths for Scientific Computing - Davide Salomoni (CNAF)
Evening lecture: Virtualization, Grid, Cloud: Integration Paths for Scientific Computing
- Davide Salomoni (CNAF)
19:00 - 20:00
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 20:30
Saturday, 17 October 2009
08:30 Session 6
08:30 - 14:40
Contributions

08:30 Students feedback

09:00 Final examination

11:30 Delivery of certificates of attendance

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