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

Registration and Welcome

Class Photos

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Group Photos gruppo_1.jpg gruppo_2.jpg

20:30 Welcome Dinner

Monday 24 October

Session 1

1 Welcome and Opening of the School

2 Concepts of performance and efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc11_elmer_intro_perf.pdf

3 Modern processors and related optimisation topics - Part 1

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides Jarp_ESC11_Architecture_New.pdf

10:40 Coffee break

4 Modern processors and related optimisation topics - Part 2

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

5 Introduction to Performance tuning tools

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

Slides 20111023-ESC11-Exercises.pdf

12:40 Lunch break

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2011.pdf

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

15:45 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

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

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

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

Slides lonardo_esc_11.pdf

20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 25 October

Session 2

11 Efficient C++ coding

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

Slides 20111024-binet.pdf

12 Efficient C++ coding

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

10:10 Coffee break

13 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

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

Slides 20111023-ESC11-Git-Update.pdf

14 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

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

12:40 Lunch break

15 The Memory Crisis

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Fermilab)

Slides 20111023-ESC11-Memory-Lectures.pdf

16 How memory allocation works

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Fermilab)

15:45 Coffee break

17 Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Fermilab)

18 Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speaker: Lassi Tuura (Fermilab)

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

Slides High_Throughput_DAQ-esc11.pptx

20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 26 October

Session 3

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

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

21 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

10:10 Coffee break

22 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

23 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

12:20 Lunch break

24 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

25 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

26 Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

17:30 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 Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thursday 27 October

Session 4

27 Parallel programming theory

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

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

28 An introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:10 Coffee break

29 Synchronization in OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

30 Work sharing constructs

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

31 The OpenMP data environment

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 Lunch break

32 I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

Slides ioefficiency.pdf ioefficiency.pptx

16:00 Coffee break

33 I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

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

Slides ocl-port-perf.pdf

20:30 Dinner

Friday 28 October

Session 5

35 OpenMP tasks

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

36 OpenMP Memory model

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:10 Coffee break

37 A survey of programming models

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

38 A survey of programming models

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 Lunch break

39 Lecture on low-level CPU profiling

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides SJAN-Understanding_performance_tuning_v3.pdf

40 Physical design of SW

Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

Slides ESC_swdesign.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

41 Physical Design Examples/HEP Frameworks

Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

Slides ESC_swdesignexample.pdf

42 Software Development Tools

Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)

Slides ESC_swtools.pdf

43 Announcements

Speaker: Federico Ruggieri (ROMA3)

Slides friday_28102011.ppt

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

Slides numa_bertinoro11.pdf

20:30 Dinner

Saturday 29 October

Session 6

45 Students feedback

46 Final examination

11:00 Coffee break

47 Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 Lunch

48 Shuttle departure