Fifth INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC13 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) Italy 20-26 October 2013

Oct 20, 2013, 4:00 PM → Oct 26, 2013, 3:00 PM Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

Exercises web page

Sun, October 20

5:00 PM → 8:30 PM Registration and Welcome

8:30 PM → 10:00 PM Welcome Dinner

Mon, October 21

8:30 AM → 8:00 PM Session 1

8:30 AM Welcome and opening remarks

Speaker: Mauro Morandin (PD)

Slides welcome.pdf

9:00 AM Concepts of performance and efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc13-intro-perf.pdf

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

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides ESC_Lecture_Jarp_October2013_V2_presented.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)

Exercises http://cern.ch/elmer/esc13

git repository for exercises https://github.com/pelmer/esc

12:40 PM Lunch break

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2013.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)

Vincenzo's git site https://github.com/VinInn/FPOptimization

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

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

5:30 PM Student lightning presentations

Slides MONDAY_21_OCTOBER.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Tue, October 22

8:30 AM → 8:00 PM Session 2

8:30 AM Efficient C++ coding (with exercises)

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

Slides efficient_c++.odp efficient_c++.pdf

9:20 AM Efficient C++ coding (with exercises)

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Efficient C++ coding (with exercises)

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

11:15 AM Efficient C++ coding (with exercises)

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

12:40 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM The Memory Crisis

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc13-memory-lecture.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)

5:30 PM Student lightning presentations

Slides Tuesday_22_October.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Wed, October 23

8:30 AM → 2:00 PM Session 3

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

Speakers: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF), Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University), Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

exercises (web site) http://elmer.web.cern.ch/elmer/esc13/

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 → 6:00 PM Session 4: Introduction to parallel computing

2:00 PM Motivation.... The power wall and the emergence of ubiquitous heterogeneous computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 04_Intro_to_par_prog.pdf

2:45 PM Parallel Computing: basic concepts and vocabulary

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:30 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM Parallel hardware: from SMP to GPU to clusters to massively parallel supercomputers

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

4:45 PM Core design patterns of parallel algorithms

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Social Tour

8:30 PM → 10:30 PM Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thu, October 24

8:30 AM → 12:50 PM Session 5: Hands on introduction to parallel programming with OpenMP

Convener: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

slides 05_hands_on_intro_openMP.pdf

8:30 AM Multithreaded programming with OpenMP: The SPMD pattern on the CPU

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

9:30 AM Parallel loops with OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM The divide and conquer pattern with OpenMP tasks

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 PM → 2:20 PM Lunch

2:20 PM → 7:30 PM Session 6: Hands on introduction to GPU programming with compiler directives

Convener: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

slides 06_hands_on_intro_gpu_programming_directives.pdf

2:20 PM GPU architectures

3:15 PM Core design patterns for the GPU programmer

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

4:15 PM Coffee break

4:45 PM Programming GPUs with directives: OpenACC and OpenMP 4.0

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

6:30 PM Evening lecture: Exploiting vector units

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Fri, October 25

8:30 AM → 12:50 PM Session 7: Hands on introduction to GPU programming with CUDA and OpenCL

Convener: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Introduction to CUDA 07b_hands_on_intro_ro_CUDA.pdf

Introduction to OpenCL 07_hands_on_intro_OpenCL.pdf

8:30 AM The kernel parallelism pattern

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

9:30 AM Basics of kernel programming

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM GPU memory hierarchy and reductions

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:50 PM → 2:20 PM Lunch

2:20 PM → 6:30 PM Session 8: Hands on introduction to cluster computing

Convener: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

slides 08_hands_on_intro_MPI.pdf

2:30 PM MPI and the concept of message passing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:30 PM The SPMD pattern in MPI

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

4:30 PM Coffee break

5:00 PM Programming highly scalable systems: "MPI+X"

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Sat, October 26

8:30 AM → 2:50 PM Session 9

Announcements annouoncements.pdf

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)