Third INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC11 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) Italy 23-29 October 2011

23 Oct 2011, 16:00 → 29 Oct 2011, 15:00 Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Sunday 23 October

16:00 → 20:30 Registration and Welcome

Class Photos

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Group Photos gruppo_1.jpg gruppo_2.jpg

20:30 → 20:45 Welcome Dinner

Monday 24 October

08:30 → 20:00 Session 1

08:30 Welcome and Opening of the School

09:00 Concepts of performance and efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc11_elmer_intro_perf.pdf

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

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides Jarp_ESC11_Architecture_New.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:50 Introduction to Performance tuning tools

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

Slides 20111023-ESC11-Exercises.pdf

12:40 Lunch break

14:15 Floating point computation: accuracy, optimization, vectorization (with exercises)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2011.pdf

15:00 Floating point computation: accuracy, optimization, vectorization (with exercises)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

15:45 Coffee break

16:00 Floating point computation: accuracy, optimization, vectorization (with exercises)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

VI Blogs https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/MultiCoreBlogs

16:45 Floating point computation: accuracy, optimization, vectorization (with exercises)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

18:30 Evening Lecture: "GPU for scientific computing" - Alessandro Lonardo - INFN Roma 1

Slides lonardo_esc_11.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 25 October

08:30 → 20:00 Session 2

08:30 Efficient C++ coding

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

Slides 20111024-binet.pdf

09:20 Efficient C++ coding

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

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

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

Slides 20111023-ESC11-Git-Update.pdf

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 (Fermilab)

Slides 20111023-ESC11-Memory-Lectures.pdf

15:00 How memory allocation works

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Fermilab)

15:45 Coffee break

16:00 Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Fermilab)

16:45 Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Fermilab)

18:30 Evening Lecture: "Architectures of High Throughput DAQ systems" - Niko Neufeld (CERN)

Slides High_Throughput_DAQ-esc11.pptx

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 26 October

08:30 → 16:30 Session 3

08:30 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

Exercise list http://lat.web.cern.ch/lat/esc11/

09:20 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

11:20 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

12:20 Lunch break

14:00 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

14:50 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

15:40 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

17:30 → 19:45 Social tour

Guided tour to CESENA and visit of the city
Guided tour to Casa Artusi (centre of gastronomic culture dedicated to Italian home cooking).

19:45 → 19:45 Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thursday 27 October

08:30 → 20:00 Session 4

08:30 Parallel programming theory

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides par-comp-omp-hands-on-ESC11.pdf

09:20 An introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Synchronization in OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:15 Work sharing constructs

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:05 The OpenMP data environment

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 Lunch break

14:30 I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

Slides ioefficiency.pdf ioefficiency.pptx

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

18:30 Evening Lecture: "OpenCL and the quest for Performance Portability" - Timothy G. Mattson (Intel)

Slides ocl-port-perf.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday 28 October

08:30 → 19:30 Session 5

08:30 OpenMP tasks

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

09:20 OpenMP Memory model

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 A survey of programming models

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:30 A survey of programming models

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 Lunch break

14:30 Lecture on low-level CPU profiling

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides SJAN-Understanding_performance_tuning_v3.pdf

15:15 Physical design of SW

Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

Slides ESC_swdesign.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Physical Design Examples/HEP Frameworks

Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

Slides ESC_swdesignexample.pdf

17:00 Software Development Tools

Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

Slides ESC_swtools.pdf

17:45 Announcements

Speaker: Federico Ruggieri (ROMA3)

Slides friday_28102011.ppt

18:30 Evening Lecture: "Linux on Multicore: challanges and perspective" - Andrea Arcangeli (RedHat)

Slides numa_bertinoro11.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Saturday 29 October

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