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

Oct 21, 2012, 4:00 PM → Oct 27, 2012, 3:00 PM Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Sun, October 21

4:00 PM → 8:30 PM Registration and Welcome

8:30 PM → 10:00 PM Welcome Dinner

Mon, October 22

8:30 AM → 8:00 PM Session 1

8:30 AM Welcome and opening remarks

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

9:00 AM Concepts of performance and efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc12_elmer_intro_perf.pdf

9:50 AM Modern processors and related optimisation topics - Part 1

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides ESC_Lecture_Jarp_Oct2012.pdf

10:40 AM Coffee break

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

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:50 AM Introduction to Performance tuning tools

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides ESC12_exercises.pdf

12:40 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM Floating point computation: accuracy, optimization, vectorization (with exercises)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2012.pdf

3:00 PM Floating point computation: accuracy, optimization, vectorization (with exercises)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Floating point computation: accuracy, optimization, vectorization (with exercises)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

exercises FPOptimization2011.tgz

4:45 PM Floating point computation: accuracy, optimization, vectorization (with exercises)

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Tue, October 23

8:30 AM → 8:00 PM Session 2

8:30 AM Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

Slides 20121024-binet-cxx.pdf

9:20 AM Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

11:15 AM Exercises - Basic C++ optimisations

Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (LAL/IN2P3)

12:40 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM The Memory Crisis

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides 20121023-ESC12-Memory-Lectures.pdf

3:00 PM How memory allocation works

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

4:45 PM Exercises - Memory Allocations

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

6:30 PM Evening lecture: "Writing better software with the new C++ standard"

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

Slides c++11_esc12.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Wed, October 24

8:30 AM → 4:30 PM Session 3

8:30 AM Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

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

9:20 AM Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

10:10 AM Coffee break

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

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

12:20 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

2:50 PM Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

3:40 PM Exercises (Floating Point, Memory use, C++)

5:00 PM → 8:00 PM Social tour

VISIT TO "TERRA DEL SOLE"

Bus departure at 17.00

8:30 PM → 10:30 PM Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thu, October 25

8:30 AM → 8:00 PM Session 4

8:30 AM Parallel programming theory

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides par_prog_envs_ESC12.pdf

9:20 AM An introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

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

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Synchronization in OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:15 AM Work sharing constructs

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:05 PM The OpenMP data environment

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 PM Lunch break

2:20 PM OpenMP tasks

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:05 PM OpenMP Memory model

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM A survey of programming models

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

5:00 PM A survey of programming models

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

6:30 PM Evening Lecture: "SEJITS: embedded specializers to turn patterns-based designs into optimized parallel code" - Timothy G. Mattson (Intel)

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Fri, October 26

8:30 AM → 7:30 PM Session 5

8:30 AM Introduction to OpenCL

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

9:20 AM Introduction to OpenCL

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Introduction to OpenCL

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:20 AM Introduction to OpenCL

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 PM Lunch break

2:20 PM I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

Slides ioefficiency.pdf ioefficiency.pptx

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM I/O Efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Maria Vagnoni (BO)

5:45 PM Announcements

Speaker: Mauro Morandin (PD)

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Sat, October 27

8:30 AM → 2:50 PM Session 6

8:30 AM Students feedback

9:00 AM Final examination

11:00 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM Delivery of certificates of attendance

12:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM Shuttle departure (to Forli' railway station)