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

Registration and Welcome

20:30 Welcome Dinner

Monday 22 November

Session 1

1 Welcome and Opening of the School

Speaker: Federico Ruggieri (RM3)

2 Concepts of performance and efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc10_elmer_intro_perf.pdf

3 Modern processors and related optimisation topics - Part 1

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides Jarp_ESC10_Architecture_final.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

4 Modern processors and related optimisation topics - Part 2

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

5 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

6 Introduction to GPUs/CPU accelerators

Speaker: Mr Andrzej Nowak (CERN)

Slides Andrzej_Nowak_-_Introduction_to_CPU_accelerators.pdf

7 Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

15:45 Coffee break

8 Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

9 Exercises - Continued focus on Performance tuning tools

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

20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 23 November

Session 2

10 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

Slides 20101123-binet-effcxx.pdf.pdf

11 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

10:10 Coffee break

12 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

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

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

13 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

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

12:40 Lunch break

14 The Memory Crisis

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

Slides 20101123-ESC09-Memory-Lectures.pdf

15 How memory allocation works

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

15:45 Coffee break

16 Exercises - Memory Allocations

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

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

17 Exercises - Memory Allocations

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

18 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 Dinner

Wednesday 24 November

Session 3

19 How memory allocation works

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (FNAL)

20 Monitoring/Debugging Memory Usage

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

10:10 Coffee break

21 Exercises - Monitoring Memory Usage

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

22 Exercises - Monitoring Memory Usage

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

12:20 Lunch break

23 Reducing Memory Usage

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

24 Exercises - Reducing Memory Usage

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

25 Exercises - Reducing Memory Usage

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

17:30 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 Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thursday 25 November

Session 4

Announcements friday.pdf

26 Floating point computation

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint.pdf

27 Exercises - Optimization floating point computation in C++

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

tar file with exercises and doc Bertinoro2010.tgz

10:10 Coffee break

28 Vectorization using SIMD (part I)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

29 vectorization using SIMD (part II)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

30 Exercises - Vectorization using gcc

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

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

12:50 Lunch break

31 I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

Slides gbrandt.IOefficiency1.pdf

32 Exercises - I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

Minutes tutorial.html

16:00 Coffee break

33 Exercises - I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Gerhard Brandt (DESY)

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

20:30 Dinner

Friday 26 November

Session 5

35 Parallel programming theory

Lecture

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

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

36 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

37 Synchronization in OpenMP

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

38 Work sharing constructs

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

39 The OpenMP data environment

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 Lunch break

40 OpenMP tasks

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

41 OpenMP Memory model

Lecture and exercises

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

16:00 Coffee break

42 A survey of programming models

Lecture

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

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

20:30 Dinner

Saturday 27 November

Session 6

44 Students feedback

45 Final examination

11:00 Coffee break

46 Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 Lunch

47 Shuttle departure