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

Oct 11, 2009, 4:00 PM → Oct 17, 2009, 3:00 PM Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

Friday announcement friday.pdf

Sun, October 11

4:00 PM → 8:30 PM Registration and Welcome

8:30 PM → 8:45 PM Welcome Dinner

Mon, October 12

8:30 AM → 5:30 PM Session 1

8:30 AM Welcome and Opening of the School

Speaker: Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

Slides ESC09_Welcome.ppt

9:00 AM Introduction/Setting the scene for why efficient use of modern architectures is important

Speaker: Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides JARP_ESC09_Architecture_V3.pdf

9:50 AM Review of modern CPU architectures (The 7 dimensions of performance)

Speaker: Sverre Jarp (CERN)

10:40 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Designing Architectures and Frameworks for HEP

Speaker: Pere Mato (CERN)

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

11:50 AM Designing Architectures and Frameworks for HEP

Speaker: Pere Mato (CERN)

12:40 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM Understanding performance tuning

Speaker: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

Slides Andrzej_Nowak_-_Understanding_performance_tuning_(ESC_2009)_v9_export.pdf

3:00 PM Exercises

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

3:45 PM Exercises

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

4:30 PM Coffee break

4:45 PM Exercises

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

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Evening Lecture: "High throughput data trasmission through network links"

Speaker: Domenico Galli (BO)

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

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Tue, October 13

8:30 AM → 7:00 PM Session 2

8:30 AM Memory management and use

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University)

Slides 20091014-ESC09-Memory-Lectures.pdf

9:20 AM Memory management and use

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Northeastern University)

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Data structures

Speaker: P. Calafiura (LBNL)

Slides CalafiuraDataStructures_Oct09_v2.pdf

11:15 AM Data structures

Speaker: P. Calafiura (LBNL)

12:00 PM Lunch break

2:30 PM Software physical design

Speaker: Pere Mato (CERN)

Slides mato_Physical_Designx.pdf Physical_Design.pptx

3:15 PM Exercises

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

Minutes README.txt

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM Exercises

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

5:00 PM Exercises

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

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Evening Lecture: "Getting it all with C++: Abstraction, Reusability, Performance and Future-Safety"

Speaker: Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat)

Slides bertinoro2009.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Wed, October 14

8:30 AM → 4:30 PM Session 3

8:30 AM Basic C++ performance issues

Speaker: Sebastien Binet (LAL - IN2P3)

Slides 20091014-binet.pdf

9:20 AM Basic C++ performance issues

Speaker: Sebastien Binet (LAL - IN2P3)

10:10 AM 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 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM Building the software

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc09_elmer_lecture.pdf

12:05 PM Building the software

Speaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

1:00 PM Lunch break

2:30 PM Exercises on Memory Management

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

3:20 PM Exercises

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

4:30 PM → 8:00 PM Tour to Ravenna

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Social dinner (Ravenna)

Thu, October 15

8:30 AM → 5:45 PM Session 4

8:30 AM Introduction to multithreading/multiprocessing methodology and vocabulary

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides VinParallelArchitectures.pdf VinParallelArchitectures.pptx

9:20 AM Introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)

Slides lazzaroOpenMP.pdf

10:10 AM Parallel Programming using std::thread

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

10:55 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM 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 PM Introduction to MPI

Speaker: Dr Alfio Lazzaro (CERN)

Slides lazzaroMPI.pdf

1:00 PM Lunch break

2:30 PM Parallel Programming exercises using OpenMP and MPI

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

exercise solutions exercise.tar

Slides lazzaroExercise.pdf lazzaroExercise.pptx

3:15 PM Parallel Programming exercises using OpenMP and MPI

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

code example using std algo stdloop.txt

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM 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

5:00 PM Exercises

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

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Evening Lecture: Multicores, GPUs, FPGAs and custom processors for scientific computing: a delicate tradeoff"

Speaker: Raffaele Tripiccione (FE)

Slides bertinoroInfn2009Tripiccione.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Fri, October 16

8:30 AM → 5:45 PM Session 5

8:30 AM 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

9:20 AM 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 AM Aspects of I/O

Speaker: A. Hanushevsky (SLAC)

Slides Hanu_Sendfile_Sectionx.pdf Sendfile_Section.pptx

10:55 AM Coffee break

11:15 AM Network I/O and latency

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Furano (CERN)

12:05 PM 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

1:00 PM Lunch break

2:30 PM Exercises

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

Slides IO_Exercises.pptx IO_Exercisesokx.pdf

3:15 PM 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

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM Exercises

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

5:00 PM Exercises

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

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Evening lecture: Virtualization, Grid, Cloud: Integration Paths for Scientific Computing

Speaker: Davide Salomoni (CNAF)

Slides virtualization_grid_cloud_esc09_091016.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Sat, October 17

8:30 AM → 2:40 PM Session 6

8:30 AM Students feedback

9:00 AM Final examination

Slides schoolCloseout.pdf

11:00 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 PM Lunch

1:15 PM Shuttle departure