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

Oct 19, 2014, 4:00 PM → Oct 25, 2014, 3:00 PM Europe/Rome

Bertinoro

Sun, October 19

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

8:30 PM → 10:00 PM Welcome Dinner

Mon, October 20

8:30 AM → 6:00 PM Session 1

8:30 AM Welcome and opening remarks

Speaker: Mauro Morandin (INFN - Padova)

9:00 AM Introduction and Concepts of Performance and Efficiency

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc14-intro-perf.pdf

9:45 AM Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

Slides ESC_Lectures_Jarp_1014_V7_Actual.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning

Speaker: Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)

11:45 AM Hands-on environment checkout

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides esc_env_setup.pdf

12:45 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM Floating point computing efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2014.pdf

3:00 PM Floating point computing efficiency

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM FloatingPoint Optimization exercises

5:00 PM Student lightning presentations

Slides Khan_ESC14.ppt Monday_students_presentation_ESC14.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Tue, October 21

8:30 AM → 6:00 PM Session 2

8:30 AM Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

Slides cpp.pdf

9:15 AM Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

10:00 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

11:15 AM Efficient C++ coding

Speaker: Dr Francesco Giacomini (CNAF)

12:00 PM Self-managed time

12:45 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 06_Intro_to_par_prog.pdf

3:00 PM Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM Introduction to parallel computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

5:00 PM Students lightning presentations

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Slides spataro_ESC14.ppt Tuesday_students_presentation_ESC14.pdf

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Wed, October 22

8:30 AM → 2:15 PM Session 3

8:30 AM A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

9:15 AM A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 07_hands_on_intro_openMP.pdf

10:00 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM A "Hands-on" introduction to OpenMP

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

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

12:00 PM Self-managed time

12:45 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM → 7:45 PM Session 4

2:15 PM Meeting at Revellino

2:30 PM Departure from Bertinoro to Ravenna

3:30 PM Arrival to Ravenna and guided tour in the centre of the city

Meeting point: Piazzale Aldo Moro

6:45 PM Meeting and departure of the bus from Ravenna to Forlinpopoli (Casa Artusi restaurant)(

Casa Artusi Via A. Costa 27/31 47034 Forlimpopoli (FC)

8:00 PM → 10:30 PM Social dinner

Casa Artusi Restaurant

Thu, October 23

8:30 AM → 12:45 PM Session 5

8:30 AM Vectorization

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

Slides OptimalFloatingPoint2014.pdf

9:15 AM Vectorization

Speaker: Vincenzo Innocente (CERN)

10:00 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM GPUs and the Heterogeneous programming problem

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 08_intro_to_gpu_programming.pdf

11:15 AM GPUs and the Heterogeneous programming problem

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:00 PM Self-managed time

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

12:45 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 7:00 PM Session 6

2:15 PM OpenCL and CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 09_OpenCL_hands_on_intro_esc.pdf

3:00 PM OpenCL and CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM CUDA: A hands-on Introduction

Speaker: Francesco Rossi (INFN Bologna)

Slides esc14_cuda.pdf

6:00 PM Evening lecture: "Big Data"

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

8:00 PM → 8:00 PM Dinner

Fri, October 24

8:30 AM → 12:45 PM Session 7

8:30 AM Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

Exercises http://elmer.web.cern.ch/elmer/esc14/index.html

Slides esc14-memory-lecture.pdf

9:15 AM Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

10:00 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

11:15 AM Efficient Memory management

Speaker: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University)

12:00 PM Self-managed time

12:45 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 6:00 PM Session 8

2:15 PM A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

Slides 13_hands_on_intro_MPI.pdf

3:00 PM A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

3:45 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM A hands-on introduction to Cluster Computing

Speaker: Dr Tim Mattson (Intel)

8:30 PM → 8:30 PM Dinner

Sat, October 25

8:30 AM → 2:50 PM Session 9

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)