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

11 Oct 2009, 16:00 → 17 Oct 2009, 15:00 Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

Friday announcement friday.pdf

Sunday 11 October

16:00 → 20:30 Registration and Welcome

20:30 → 20:45 Welcome Dinner

Monday 12 October

08:30 → 17:30 Session 1

08:30 Welcome and Opening of the School

Speaker: Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

Slides ESC09_Welcome.ppt

09:00 Introduction/Setting the scene for why efficient use of modern architectures is important

Speaker: Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides JARP_ESC09_Architecture_V3.pdf

09:50 Review of modern CPU architectures (The 7 dimensions of performance)

Speaker: Sverre Jarp (CERN)

10:40 Coffee break

11:00 Designing Architectures and Frameworks for HEP

Speaker: Pere Mato (CERN)

Slides Architectures-part1-2.pdf.pdf Architectures-part1-2.pptx

11:50 Designing Architectures and Frameworks for HEP

Speaker: Pere Mato (CERN)

12:40 Lunch break

14:15 Understanding performance tuning

Speaker: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

Slides Andrzej_Nowak_-_Understanding_performance_tuning_(ESC_2009)_v9_export.pdf

15:00 Exercises

Speakers: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN), Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Sverre Jarp (CERN)

15:45 Exercises

Speakers: Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

16:30 Coffee break

16:45 Exercises

Speakers: Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Dr Pere Mato (CERN)

19:00 → 20:00 Evening Lecture: "High throughput data trasmission through network links"

Speaker: Domenico Galli (BO)

Slides galli-ESC09-bertinoro20091012-1x1s.pdf galli-ESC09-bertinoro20091012-4x1s.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 13 October

08:30 → 19:00 Session 2

08:30 Memory management and use

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University)

Slides 20091014-ESC09-Memory-Lectures.pdf

09:20 Memory management and use

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University)

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Data structures

Speaker: P. Calafiura (LBNL)

Slides CalafiuraDataStructures_Oct09_v2.pdf

11:15 Data structures

Speaker: P. Calafiura (LBNL)

12:00 Lunch break

14:30 Software physical design

Speaker: Pere Mato (CERN)

Slides mato_Physical_Designx.pdf Physical_Design.pptx

15:15 Exercises

Speakers: Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University), Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Minutes README.txt

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Exercises

Speakers: Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Dr Pere Mato (CERN)

17:00 Exercises

Speakers: Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), Dr Pere Mato (CERN)

19:00 → 20:00 Evening Lecture: "Getting it all with C++: Abstraction, Reusability, Performance and Future-Safety"

Speaker: Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)

Slides bertinoro2009.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 14 October

08:30 → 16:30 Session 3

08:30 Basic C++ performance issues

Speaker: Sebastien Binet (LAL - IN2P3)

Slides 20091014-binet.pdf

09:20 Basic C++ performance issues

Speaker: Sebastien Binet (LAL - IN2P3)

10:10 Compiler Optimization including efficient programming with SIMD (SSE) instructions

Speakers: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN), Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides SJ_Compilers_New_V3.pdf

10:55 Coffee break

11:15 Building the software

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc09_elmer_lecture.pdf

12:05 Building the software

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

13:00 Lunch break

14:30 Exercises on Memory Management

Speakers: Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University), Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

15:20 Exercises

Speakers: Dr Alfio Lazzaro (CERN), Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

16:30 → 20:00 Tour to Ravenna

20:30 → 20:30 Social dinner (Ravenna)

Thursday 15 October

08:30 → 17:45 Session 4

08:30 Introduction to multithreading/multiprocessing methodology and vocabulary

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides VinParallelArchitectures.pdf VinParallelArchitectures.pptx

09:20 Introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)

Slides lazzaroOpenMP.pdf

10:10 Parallel Programming using std::thread

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

10:55 Coffee break

11:15 Support tools for multithreading

Speaker: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

Paper tcheck.txt

Slides Andrzej_Nowak_-_Support_tools_for_multi-threading_(ESC_2009)_v1.pdf

12:05 Introduction to MPI

Speaker: Dr Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)

Slides lazzaroMPI.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

14:30 Parallel Programming exercises using OpenMP and MPI

Speakers: Dr Alfio Lazzaro (CERN), Sverre Jarp (CERN)

exercise solutions exercise.tar

Slides lazzaroExercise.pdf lazzaroExercise.pptx

15:15 Parallel Programming exercises using OpenMP and MPI

Speakers: Alfio Lazzaro (MI), Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

code example using std algo stdloop.txt

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Exercises using std::thread

Speakers: Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

code example 1 DistributedLocks.txt

code example 2 HistoMapReduce.txt

Paper ReadMe.txt

web tutorial http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/threading/multithreading-in-c++0x-part-1-starting-threads.html

17:00 Exercises

Speakers: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN), Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

19:00 → 20:00 Evening Lecture: Multicores, GPUs, FPGAs and custom processors for scientific computing: a delicate tradeoff"

Speaker: Raffaele Tripiccione (FE)

Slides bertinoroInfn2009Tripiccione.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday 16 October

08:30 → 17:45 Session 5

08:30 Aspects of I/O

Speaker: A. Hanushevsky (SLAC)

Slides

• FS_Section.pptx
• Hanu_16_830.1_FS_Sectionx.pdf
• Hanu_16_830.2_IO_Sectionx.pdf
• IO_Section.pptx

09:20 Aspects of I/O

Speaker: A. Hanushevsky (SLAC)

Slides

• AIO_Section.pptx
• Hanu_9_30AIO_Sectionx.pdf
• MIO_Section.pptx
• MIO_Sectionx.pdf

10:10 Aspects of I/O

Speaker: A. Hanushevsky (SLAC)

Slides Hanu_Sendfile_Sectionx.pdf Sendfile_Section.pptx

10:55 Coffee break

11:15 Network I/O and latency

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

12:05 Network I/O and latency

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

Slides

• Track2_furano.pdf
• Track2_furano.pptx
• Track2_furano_part2.pdf
• Track2_furano_part2.pptx

13:00 Lunch break

14:30 Exercises

Speakers: A. Hanushevsky (S), Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

Slides IO_Exercises.pptx IO_Exercisesokx.pdf

15:15 Exercises

Speakers: Mr Andrew Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Lab), Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

Slides Track2_furano_exercises.pdf Track2_furano_exercises.pptx

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Exercises

Speakers: Mr Andrew Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Lab), Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

17:00 Exercises

Speakers: Mr Andrew Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Lab), Davide Salomoni (CNAF), Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

19:00 → 20:00 Evening lecture: Virtualization, Grid, Cloud: Integration Paths for Scientific Computing

Speaker: Davide Salomoni (CNAF)

Slides virtualization_grid_cloud_esc09_091016.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Saturday 17 October

08:30 → 14:40 Session 6

08:30 Students feedback

09:00 Final examination

Slides schoolCloseout.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 Lunch

13:15 Shuttle departure