Fourth INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC12 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) Italy 21-27 October 2012

21 Oct 2012, 16:00 → 27 Oct 2012, 15:00 Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Sunday 21 October

16:00 → 20:30 Registration and Welcome

20:30 → 22:00 Welcome Dinner

Monday 22 October

08:30 → 20:00 Session 1

08:30 Welcome and opening remarks

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

09:00 Concepts of performance and efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc12_elmer_intro_perf.pdf

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

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides ESC_Lecture_Jarp_Oct2012.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

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides ESC12_exercises.pdf

12:40 Lunch break

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2012.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)

exercises FPOptimization2011.tgz

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 23 October

08:30 → 20:00 Session 2

08:30 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

Slides 20121024-binet-cxx.pdf

09:20 Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

11:15 Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

12:40 Lunch break

14:15 The Memory Crisis

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides 20121023-ESC12-Memory-Lectures.pdf

15:00 How memory allocation works

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

15:45 Coffee break

16:00 Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

16:45 Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

18:30 Evening lecture: "Writing better software with the new C++ standard"

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

Slides c++11_esc12.pdf

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday 24 October

08:30 → 16:30 Session 3

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

Speakers: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University), Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3), Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

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++)

17:00 → 20:00 Social tour

VISIT TO "TERRA DEL SOLE"

Bus departure at 17.00

20:30 → 22:30 Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thursday 25 October

08:30 → 20:00 Session 4

08:30 Parallel programming theory

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides par_prog_envs_ESC12.pdf

09:20 An introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides par-comp-omp-hands-on-ESC12.pdf

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

14:20 OpenMP tasks

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:05 OpenMP Memory model

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 A survey of programming models

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

17:00 A survey of programming models

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

18:30 Evening Lecture: "SEJITS: embedded specializers to turn patterns-based designs into optimized parallel code" - Timothy G. Mattson (Intel)

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday 26 October

08:30 → 19:30 Session 5

08:30 Introduction to OpenCL

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

09:20 Introduction to OpenCL

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:10 Coffee break

10:30 Introduction to OpenCL

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:20 Introduction to OpenCL

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 Lunch break

14:20 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)

17:45 Announcements

Speaker: Mauro Morandin (PD)

20:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Saturday 27 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

14:00 Shuttle departure (to Forli' railway station)