Name: Sixth INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC14 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) Italy 19-25 October 2014
Start: 2014-10-19T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-10-25T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Bertinoro

Sixth INFN International School on: "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC14 - Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena) Italy 19-25 October 2014

from Sunday, 19 October 2014 (16:00) to Saturday, 25 October 2014 (15:00)

Monday, 13 October 2014
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Friday, 17 October 2014
Saturday, 18 October 2014
Sunday, 19 October 2014

17:00 Registration and Welcome

17:00 - 20:30

20:30 Welcome Dinner
Welcome Dinner
20:30 - 22:00

Monday, 20 October 2014
08:30 Session 1
08:30 - 18:00
Contributions

08:30 Welcome and opening remarks - Mauro Morandin (INFN - Padova)

09:00 Introduction and Concepts of Performance and Efficiency - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

09:45 Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning - Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:00 Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning - Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:45 Hands-on environment checkout - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

14:15 Floating point computing efficiency - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

15:00 Floating point computing efficiency - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

16:15 FloatingPoint Optimization exercises

17:00 Student lightning presentations
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 20:30
Tuesday, 21 October 2014
08:30 Session 2
08:30 - 18:00
Contributions

08:30 Efficient C++ coding - Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

09:15 Efficient C++ coding - Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

10:30 Efficient C++ coding - Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

11:15 Efficient C++ coding - Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

12:00 Self-managed time

14:15 Introduction to parallel computing - Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:00 Introduction to parallel computing - Tim Mattson (Intel)

16:15 Introduction to parallel computing - Tim Mattson (Intel)

17:00 Students lightning presentations - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 20:30
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
08:30 Session 3
08:30 - 14:15
Contributions

08:30 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP - Tim Mattson (Intel)

09:15 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP - Tim Mattson (Intel)

10:30 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP - Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:15 A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

12:00 Self-managed time
14:15 Session 4
14:15 - 19:45
Contributions

14:15 Meeting at Revellino

14:30 Departure from Bertinoro to Ravenna

15:30 Arrival to Ravenna and guided tour in the centre of the city

18:45 Meeting and departure of the bus from Ravenna to Forlinpopoli (Casa Artusi restaurant)(
20:00 Social dinner
Social dinner
20:00 - 22:30
Thursday, 23 October 2014
08:30 Session 5
08:30 - 12:45
Contributions

08:30 Vectorization - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

09:15 Vectorization - Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

10:30 GPUs and the Heterogeneous programming problem - Tim Mattson (Intel)

11:15 GPUs and the Heterogeneous programming problem - Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:00 Self-managed time - Tim Mattson (Intel)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
14:15 Session 6
14:15 - 19:00
Contributions

14:15 OpenCL and CUDA: A hands-on Introduction - Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:00 OpenCL and CUDA: A hands-on Introduction - Tim Mattson (Intel)

16:15 CUDA: A hands-on Introduction - Francesco Rossi (INFN Bologna)

18:00 Evening lecture: "Big Data" - Tim Mattson (Intel)
20:00 Dinner
Dinner
20:00 - 20:00
Friday, 24 October 2014
08:30 Session 7
08:30 - 12:45
Contributions

08:30 Efficient Memory management - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

09:15 Efficient Memory management - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

10:30 Efficient Memory management - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

11:15 Efficient Memory management - Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

12:00 Self-managed time
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
14:15 Session 8
14:15 - 18:00
Contributions

14:15 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing - Tim Mattson (Intel)

15:00 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing - Tim Mattson (Intel)

16:15 A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing - Tim Mattson (Intel)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 20:30
Saturday, 25 October 2014
08:30 Session 9
08:30 - 14:50
Contributions

08:30 Students feedback

09:00 Final examination

11:30 Delivery of certificates of attendance

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