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

21 Nov 2010, 16:00 → 27 Nov 2010, 15:00 Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

FINAL PROGRAM

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Sunday 21 November

16:00 → 20:30 Registration and Welcome

20:30 → 20:45 Welcome Dinner

Monday 22 November

08:30 → 20:00 Session 1

08:30 Welcome and Opening of the School

Speaker: Federico Ruggieri (RM3)

09:00 Concepts of performance and efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc10_elmer_intro_perf.pdf

09:50 Modern processors and related optimisation topics - Part 1

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides Jarp_ESC10_Architecture_final.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:50 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 Lunch break

14:15 Introduction to GPUs/CPU accelerators

Speaker: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

Slides Andrzej_Nowak_-_Introduction_to_CPU_accelerators.pdf

15:00 Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

15:45 Coffee break

16:00 Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

16:45 Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 23 November

08:30 → 20:00 Session 2

08:30 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

Slides 20101123-binet-effcxx.pdf.pdf

09:20 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

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

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

11:15 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

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

12:40 Lunch break

14:15 The Memory Crisis

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

Slides 20101123-ESC09-Memory-Lectures.pdf

15:00 How memory allocation works

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

15:45 Coffee break

16:00 Exercises - Memory Allocations

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

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

16:45 Exercises - Memory Allocations

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

18:30 Evening Lecture: "The new C++ runtime library: more and better" (Paolo Carlini, Oracle Italia)

Slides Paolo_11_2010.pdf Paolo_11_2010.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 24 November

08:30 → 16:30 Session 3

08:30 How memory allocation works

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

09:20 Monitoring/Debugging Memory Usage

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Exercises - Monitoring Memory Usage

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

11:20 Exercises - Monitoring Memory Usage

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

12:20 Lunch break

14:00 Reducing Memory Usage

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

14:50 Exercises - Reducing Memory Usage

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

15:40 Exercises - Reducing Memory Usage

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

17:30 → 19:45 Social tour

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

19:45 → 19:45 Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thursday 25 November

08:30 → 20:00 Session 4

Announcements friday.pdf

08:30 Floating point computation

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint.pdf

09:20 Exercises - Optimization floating point computation in C++

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

tar file with exercises and doc Bertinoro2010.tgz

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Vectorization using SIMD (part I)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

11:15 vectorization using SIMD (part II)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

12:05 Exercises - Vectorization using gcc

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

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

12:50 Lunch break

14:30 I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

Slides gbrandt.IOefficiency1.pdf

15:15 Exercises - I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

Minutes tutorial.html

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Exercises - I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

18:30 Evening Lecture: "Exploiting GPU'sfor scientific computing" (Leone Bosi, INFN Perugia)

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday 26 November

08:30 → 19:30 Session 5

08:30 Parallel programming theory

Lecture

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

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

09:20 An introduction to OpenMP

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

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

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Synchronization in OpenMP

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:00 Work sharing constructs

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:50 The OpenMP data environment

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 Lunch break

14:30 OpenMP tasks

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:15 OpenMP Memory model

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 A survey of programming models

Lecture

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

18:30 Evening Lecture: "How to program a 1000 core processor" (Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Co.)

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Saturday 27 November

08:30 → 14:50 Session 6

08:30 Students feedback

09:00 Final examination

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 Lunch

14:30 Shuttle departure