Second INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC10 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) I 22-27 November 2010

Nov 21, 2010, 4:00 PM → Nov 27, 2010, 3:00 PM Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

FINAL PROGRAM

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Sun, November 21

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

8:30 PM → 8:45 PM Welcome Dinner

Mon, November 22

8:30 AM → 8:00 PM Session 1

8:30 AM Welcome and Opening of the School

Speaker: Federico Ruggieri (RM3)

9:00 AM Concepts of performance and efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc10_elmer_intro_perf.pdf

9:50 AM Modern processors and related optimisation topics - Part 1

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides Jarp_ESC10_Architecture_final.pdf

10:40 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Modern processors and related optimisation topics - Part 2

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:50 AM Exercises - Introduction to Performance tuning tools

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

Exercises http://cern.ch/elmer/esc10/list.html

12:40 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM Introduction to GPUs/CPU accelerators

Speaker: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

Slides Andrzej_Nowak_-_Introduction_to_CPU_accelerators.pdf

3:00 PM Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

4:45 PM Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Tue, November 23

8:30 AM → 8:00 PM Session 2

8:30 AM Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

Slides 20101123-binet-effcxx.pdf.pdf

9:20 AM Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

Speakers: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3), Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Exercises http://cern.ch/elmer/esc10/list.html

11:15 AM Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

Speakers: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3), Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

12:40 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM The Memory Crisis

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

Slides 20101123-ESC09-Memory-Lectures.pdf

3:00 PM How memory allocation works

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speakers: Lassi Tuura (FNAL), Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Exercises http://cern.ch/elmer/esc10/list.html

4:45 PM Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speakers: Lassi Tuura (FNAL), Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

6:30 PM Evening Lecture: "The new C++ runtime library: more and better" (Paolo Carlini, Oracle Italia)

Slides Paolo_11_2010.pdf Paolo_11_2010.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Wed, November 24

8:30 AM → 4:30 PM Session 3

8:30 AM How memory allocation works

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

9:20 AM Monitoring/Debugging Memory Usage

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Exercises - Monitoring Memory Usage

Speakers: Lassi Tuura (FNAL), Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

11:20 AM Exercises - Monitoring Memory Usage

Speakers: Lassi Tuura (FNAL), Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

12:20 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM Reducing Memory Usage

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

2:50 PM Exercises - Reducing Memory Usage

Speakers: Lassi Tuura (FNAL), Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

3:40 PM Exercises - Reducing Memory Usage

Speakers: Lassi Tuura (FNAL), Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

5:30 PM → 7:45 PM Social tour

Guided tour to Casa Artusi (centre of gastronomic culture dedicated to Italian home cooking).
Cooking demonstration and tasting of Piadina Romagnola

7:45 PM → 7:45 PM Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thu, November 25

8:30 AM → 8:00 PM Session 4

Announcements friday.pdf

8:30 AM Floating point computation

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint.pdf

9:20 AM Exercises - Optimization floating point computation in C++

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

tar file with exercises and doc Bertinoro2010.tgz

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Vectorization using SIMD (part I)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

11:15 AM vectorization using SIMD (part II)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

12:05 PM Exercises - Vectorization using gcc

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

exercises http://innocent.home.cern.ch/innocent/Bertinoro2010/doc/

12:50 PM Lunch break

2:30 PM I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

Slides gbrandt.IOefficiency1.pdf

3:15 PM Exercises - I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

Minutes tutorial.html

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM Exercises - I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

6:30 PM Evening Lecture: "Exploiting GPU'sfor scientific computing" (Leone Bosi, INFN Perugia)

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Fri, November 26

8:30 AM → 7:30 PM Session 5

8:30 AM Parallel programming theory

Lecture

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides par-comp-omp-hands-on-ESC10.pdf

9:20 AM An introduction to OpenMP

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Exercises http://elmer.web.cern.ch/elmer/esc10/list.html

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Synchronization in OpenMP

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:00 AM Work sharing constructs

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:50 AM The OpenMP data environment

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 PM Lunch break

2:30 PM OpenMP tasks

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:15 PM OpenMP Memory model

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM A survey of programming models

Lecture

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

6:30 PM Evening Lecture: "How to program a 1000 core processor" (Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Co.)

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Sat, November 27

8:30 AM → 2:50 PM Session 6

8:30 AM Students feedback

9:00 AM Final examination

11:00 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 PM Lunch

2:30 PM Shuttle departure